Test 9 · The first people: hunters, gatherers and cave painters

Bloody hell, how old are them cave paintings at Lascaux and Altamira?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bloody hell · What happens: be · To what, where: cave paintings, Lascaux

This is test 9 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	Bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hell	amod
2	hell	hell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 paintings	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 old	advmod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hell	amod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 paintings	cop
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 paintings	nsubj
8	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 paintings	compound
9	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 Lascaux	case
11	Lascaux	Lascaux	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 paintings	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Altamira	cc
13	Altamira	Altamira	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Lascaux	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 paintings	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bloody hell	cave paintings		Lascaux and Altamira			tree rules

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

Made last century as a joke by some local kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 century	amod
3	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Made	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 joke	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Made	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 kids	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 kids	det
9	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kids	amod
10	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle					century	as a joke; by some local kids	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

Option 2

About 3 million years old, before people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	3 million	advmod
2	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 million	compound
3	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 old	obl:unmarked
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 people	punct
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 people	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 old	conj

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

Option 3

About 300 years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 300	advmod
2	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 old	obl:unmarked
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Some paintings in such caves are over 30,000 years old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 paintings	det
2	paintings	painting	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 old	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 caves	case
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 caves	amod
5	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 paintings	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 old	cop
7	over	over	ADV	_	8 30,000	advmod
8	30,000	30,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 years	nummod
9	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 old	obl:unmarked
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	some paintings in such caves				year	old property	tree rules

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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