Test 8 · ★★★ · BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines
Ben squashes Earth's whole history into one day. About when do the dinosaurs die out on his clock?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ben, dinosaurs · What happens: squash, die out · To what, where: whole history, clock
This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 125 «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world 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: Ben squashes Earth's whole history into one day.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 squashes | nsubj |
| 2 | squashes | squash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 history | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Earth | case |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 history | amod |
| 6 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 squashes | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 day | nummod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 squashes | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 squashes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squash | present | Ben | Earth's whole history | day | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient |
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: About when do the dinosaurs die out on his clock?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 6 die | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 die | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 die | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dinosaurs | det |
| 5 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 die | nsubj |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 die | compound:prt |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 clock | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 clock | nmod:poss |
| 10 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 die | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 die | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die out | present · do-support | the dinosaurs | Earth's clock | about property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Exactly at noon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 3 noon | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 noon | case |
| 3 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Just after midnight at the very start
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 midnight | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 midnight | case |
| 3 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 start | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 start | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 start | advmod |
| 7 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 midnight | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
About 21 minutes before midnight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 21 | advmod |
| 2 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 minutes | nummod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 5 midnight | case |
| 5 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 minutes | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
At breakfast time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | compound |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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