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Test 3 · How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline

A cartoon shows cavemen riding dinosaurs. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, cavemen · What happens: show, ride, be · To what, where: cavemen, dinosaurs

This is test 3 of lesson 61 «How we got here: the big steps on one long timeline» 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

Sentence 1: A cartoon shows cavemen riding dinosaurs.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cavemen	caveman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shows	obj
5	riding	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 cavemen	acl
6	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 riding	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon	cavemen					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent caveman=Recipient
2	ride	gerund	cavemen not said here	dinosaurs					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: What is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Millions of years separate the dinosaurs and people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 separate	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 years	case
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Millions	nmod
4	separate	separate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dinosaurs	det
6	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 separate	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 people	cc
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dinosaurs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	separate	present	Millions of years	the dinosaurs and people					vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Patient

Option 2

Only the small dinosaurs were really ridden by people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 dinosaurs	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dinosaurs	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dinosaurs	amod
4	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ridden	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ridden	aux:pass
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 ridden	advmod
7	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 people	case
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ridden	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past · passive	people	the small dinosaurs					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The cavemen should be riding the flying dinosaurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cavemen	det
2	cavemen	caveman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 riding	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 riding	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 riding	aux
5	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dinosaurs	det
7	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 dinosaurs	amod
8	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 riding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	should · progressive	the cavemen	the flying dinosaurs					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Theme
2	fly	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing at all: people and dinosaurs lived together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 lived	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 people	punct
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lived	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dinosaurs	cc
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 people	conj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 lived	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live together	past	Nothing					together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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