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Test 9 · ★ · Dinosaurs and life long ago

An animal died on dry rocks and was eaten by others. Why is it unlikely to become a fossil?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: animal, others · What happens: die, eat, be, become · To what, where: dry rocks, fossil

This is test 9 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: An animal died on dry rocks and was eaten by others.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 died	nsubj
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 rocks	case
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rocks	amod
6	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 died	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 eaten	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 eaten	aux:pass
9	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 died	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 others	case
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eaten	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 died	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	a animal			dry rocks			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	eat	past · passive	others						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Why is it unlikely to become a fossil?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 unlikely	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unlikely	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 unlikely	expl
4	unlikely	unlikely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 become	mark
6	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 unlikely	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fossil	det
8	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 become	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 unlikely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						unlikely property	tree rules
2	become	to-infinitive		a fossil					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It was not buried quickly

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	4 buried	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 buried	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 buried	advmod
4	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 buried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bury	past · passive		It				quickly property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Fossils only form in caves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 form	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 form	advmod
3	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 caves	case
5	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 form	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	present	Fossils			caves			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location

Option 3

It was too small to keep

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	4 small	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 small	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					small property	tree rules
2	keep	to-infinitive							vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Its bones were already stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bones	nmod:poss
2	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stone	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stone	cop
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 stone	advmod
5	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Its bones	stone					tree rules

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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