Test 7 · Rocks, minerals and fossils

Why is it very lucky to find a fossil of a soft jellyfish?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, find · To what, where: fossil

This is test 7 of lesson 61 «Rocks, minerals and fossils» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 lucky	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lucky	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lucky	nsubj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 lucky	advmod
5	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lucky	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fossil	det
9	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 jellyfish	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 jellyfish	det
12	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 jellyfish	amod
13	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fossil	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lucky	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					lucky property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive		a fossil of a soft jellyfish					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fossil=Topic

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

Jellyfish never die, so they leave no bodies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 die	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 die	advmod
3	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 leave	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 leave	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 leave	nsubj
7	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 die	conj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 bodies	det
9	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not die	present	Jellyfish						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	leave	present	Jellyfish	no bodies					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Jellyfish lived only in the deepest sea, where nothing can ever be buried in mud

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 sea	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
6	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 sea	amod
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 buried	punct
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 buried	advmod
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 buried	nsubj:pass
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 buried	aux
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 buried	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 buried	aux:pass
14	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lived	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 mud	case
16	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Jellyfish			the deepest sea			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location
2	bury	can · passive		nothing		mud	ever		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in mud=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Soft bodies usually rot away before they can be buried and turned to stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bodies	amod
2	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rot	nsubj
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	4 rot	advmod
4	rot	rot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 rot	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 buried	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 buried	nsubj:pass
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 buried	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 buried	aux:pass
10	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 rot	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 turned	cc
12	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 buried	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 stone	case
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rot away	present	Soft bodies			away, usually property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	bury	can · passive		bodies = body			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	turn	participle			stone		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to stone=Trajectory

Option 4

Jellyfish lived only for a very short time on Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 lived	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	8 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 time	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 short	advmod
7	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 Earth	case
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 time	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Jellyfish				time		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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