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Test 8 · ★★ · Asteroids and the asteroid belt

A dinosaur game says all dinosaurs died out. What is the better answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dinosaur game, dinosaurs, better answer · What happens: say, die out, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Asteroids and the asteroid belt» 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

Sentence 1: A dinosaur game says all dinosaurs died out.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 game	det
2	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 game	compound
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 dinosaurs	det
6	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 died	nsubj
7	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 died	compound:prt
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a dinosaur game						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	die out	past	all dinosaurs						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 the better answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the better answer						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

All died, birds came from fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	ADV	_	2 died	advmod
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 died	conj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 fish	case
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past						all property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	come	past	birds					from fish	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from fish=Initial_Location

Option 2

Crocodiles are the last dinosaurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dinosaurs	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dinosaurs	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dinosaurs	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dinosaurs	amod
5	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Crocodiles	the last dinosaurs					tree rules

Option 3

Some big dinosaurs still live in jungles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 dinosaurs	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dinosaurs	amod
3	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 live	advmod
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 jungles	case
7	jungles	jungle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	some big dinosaurs			jungles	still		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jungle=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Birds survived and are living dinosaurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 survived	nsubj
2	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dinosaurs	cc
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dinosaurs	cop
5	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dinosaurs	amod
6	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 survived	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	survive	past	Birds						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	Birds not said here	living dinosaurs					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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