Test 1 · The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters

my little bro says cavemen rode dinosaurs, he saw it on telly. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: little bro, cavemen, bro · What happens: say, ride, see · To what, where: dinosaurs, it, telly · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 1 «The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters» of the history course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bro	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bro	amod
3	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cavemen	caveman	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rode	nsubj
6	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rode	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rode	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 saw	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 telly	case
13	telly	telly	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
15	right	right	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my little bro			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ride	past	cavemen	dinosaurs		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Theme
3	see	past	bro	it	telly	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, dinosaurs died out millions of years before humans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 dinosaurs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 died	compound:prt
6	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 died	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 years	case
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 millions	nmod
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 humans	case
10	humans	human	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die out	past	dinosaurs	millions of years			before humans		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

No, they rode woolly mammoths everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 rode	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mammoths	amod
6	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rode	obj
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 rode	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past	they	woolly mammoths				everywhere property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mammoth=Theme

Option 3

Yes, in Africa they did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Africa	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Africa	case
4	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Yes	vocative
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	they						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yes, but only small dinosaurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 dinosaurs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 dinosaurs	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 dinosaurs	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dinosaurs	amod
6	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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