Test 11 · Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars

crap, the dinosaurs died from a meteorite? all of 'em?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crap · What happens: die · To what, where: meteorite

This is test 11 of lesson 16 «Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars» of the space 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	crap	crap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 crap	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dinosaurs	det
4	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 died	nsubj
5	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 meteorite	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 meteorite	det
8	meteorite	meteorite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 died	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 all	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 meteorite	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 'em	case
12	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 all	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 died	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	crap			a meteorite			vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from meteorite=Causer

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

Yes, every dinosaur and every bird died at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dinosaur	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 dinosaur	det
4	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 bird	cc
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dinosaur	conj
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 once	case
10	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 died	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	every dinosaur and every bird						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

Yes, and it happened 50,000 years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 happened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 happened	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	50,000	50000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ago	obl:unmarked
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	5 happened	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it					ago property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

An impact helped end the non-bird dinosaurs; birds are their living relatives

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 impact	det
2	impact	impact	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helped	nsubj
3	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 helped	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dinosaurs	det
6	non-bird	non-bird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dinosaurs	amod
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 end	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 relatives	punct
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 relatives	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 relatives	cop
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 relatives	nmod:poss
12	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 relatives	amod
13	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 helped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	help	past	a impact		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	end	infinitive	a impact not said here	the non-bird dinosaurs	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality dinosaur=Eventuality
3	is a	present	birds	birds's living relatives	tree rules

Option 4

No, dinosaurs never met any meteorite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 met	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 met	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 met	advmod
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 meteorite	det
7	meteorite	meteorite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not meet	past	dinosaurs	any meteorite					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meteorite=Co-Agent

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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