Exam question 3 · BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the relation in time between human beings and the non-bird dinosaurs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: relation

This is exam question 3 of lesson 125 «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 relation	det
10	relation	relation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 time	case
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obl
13	between	between	ADP	_	15 beings	case
14	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beings	amod
15	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 time	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dinosaurs	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dinosaurs	det
18	non-bird	non-bird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dinosaurs	amod
19	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 beings	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the relation			time	of the following statements; accurately property	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 · ← Mova's choice

The dinosaurs died out approximately 4,000 years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dinosaurs	det
2	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 died	nsubj
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 died	compound:prt
5	approximately	approximately	ADV	_	6 4,000	advmod
6	4,000	4,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 died	obl:unmarked
8	ago	ago	ADV	_	7 years	advmod

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

Option 2

Human beings appeared before the dinosaurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 beings	amod
2	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 appeared	nsubj
3	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	6 dinosaurs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dinosaurs	det
6	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 appeared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	Human beings				before the dinosaurs		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before dinosaur=Location

Option 3

The two lived side by side for several thousand years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 two	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 side	case
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 years	case
8	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thousand	amod
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the two	side			year	by side	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme side=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The dinosaurs died out some 66 million years before human beings appeared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dinosaurs	det
2	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 died	nsubj
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 died	compound:prt
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 years	det
6	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 million	compound
7	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 died	obl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 appeared	mark
10	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 beings	amod
11	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 appeared	nsubj
12	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 died	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die out	past	the dinosaurs				year		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	appear	past	human beings						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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