Test 8 · ★ · Dinosaurs and life long ago

Why did the rock from space affect animals all over the world?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: rock, world

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rock	det
4	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 animals	case
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 affect	compound
7	affect	affect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 animals	compound
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 did	obl
9	all	all	ADV	_	12 world	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the rock		the world		from affect animals	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Eventuality

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

It hit every country at the same time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 country	det
4	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 time	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	It	every country			time		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Co-Theme

Option 2

It was bigger than the whole Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bigger	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bigger	cop
3	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	7 Earth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Earth	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Earth	amod
7	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					than the whole Earth; big property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Dust and smoke blocked the sun and changed the climate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blocked	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 smoke	cc
3	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dust	conj
4	blocked	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blocked	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 changed	cc
8	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blocked	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 climate	det
10	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 changed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	past	Dust and smoke	the sun					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer sun=Theme
2	change	past	Dust and smoke not said here	the climate					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent climate=Patient

Option 4

It made all the seas boil away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 seas	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 seas	det
5	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 boil	nsubj
6	boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 made	ccomp
7	away	away	ADV	_	6 boil	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	It						tree rules
2	boil away	present	all seas					away property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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