Exam question 4 · Dinosaurs and life long ago

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the period in which woolly mammoths lived?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: woolly mammoths · What happens: follow, characteris, live · To what, where: period

This is exam question 4 of lesson 78 «Dinosaurs and life long ago» 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 period	det
10	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lived	obl
13	woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mammoths	amod
14	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lived	nsubj
15	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 period	acl:relcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the period		of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	live	past	woolly mammoths		the period		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location

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

Before the first living things in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Before	before	ADP	_	5 things	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 things	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 things	amod
4	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 things	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

During the last Ice Age, long after the dinosaurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	During	during	ADP	_	5 Age	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Age	det
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Age	amod
4	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Age	compound
5	Age	Age	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dinosaurs	punct
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 dinosaurs	advmod
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 dinosaurs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dinosaurs	det
10	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Age	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

During the same period as the dinosaurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	During	during	ADP	_	4 period	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 period	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 period	amod
4	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 dinosaurs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dinosaurs	det
7	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 period	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

During the present century in Siberia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	During	during	ADP	_	4 century	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 century	det
3	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 century	amod
4	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Siberia	case
6	Siberia	Siberia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 century	nmod

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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