Test 11 · ★ · Dinosaurs and life long ago

so what wiped out the dinosaurs

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: wipe out · To what, where: dinosaurs

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 78 «Dinosaurs and life long ago» 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 wiped	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wiped	nsubj
3	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 wiped	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dinosaurs	det
6	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wiped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe out	past		the dinosaurs					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Source

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

Woolly mammoths ate all their food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Woolly	woolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mammoths	amod
2	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 food	det:predet
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 food	nmod:poss
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	Woolly mammoths	mammoths's food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 2

The last ice age froze them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 age	det
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 age	amod
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 age	compound
4	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 froze	nsubj
5	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 froze	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past	the last ice age	them = they					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result

Option 3

Cavemen hunted them all down long ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cavemen	caveman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunted	nsubj
2	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hunted	obj
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 down	advmod
5	down	down	ADV	_	2 hunted	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 ago	advmod
7	ago	ago	ADV	_	2 hunted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past	Cavemen	them = they				ago, down property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A huge rock from space hit the Earth about 66 million years ago

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rock	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rock	amod
3	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hit	nsubj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 space	case
5	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rock	nmod
6	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Earth	det
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hit	obj
9	about	about	ADV	_	11 million	advmod
10	66	66	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 million	compound
11	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hit	obl:unmarked
13	ago	ago	ADV	_	12 years	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	a huge rock from space	the Earth			year		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme

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