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title: «poo can't be a fossil lol» What is right? — Fossils: how a living thing turns to s… · tree and pragmatics
description: «poo can't be a fossil lol» What is right? Test 7 of lesson 275 «Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig it up» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 7 · Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig…

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«poo can't be a fossil lol» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** poo, fossil · **What happens:** not be, be · **To what, where:** fossil

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This is test 7 of lesson 275 «Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig it up» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up:t7:1
# text = «poo can't be a fossil lol» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fossil	fossil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | can | poo | a fossil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | a fossil |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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It can: fossil poo is a trace fossil and shows what animals ate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up:t7:o1:1
# text = It can: fossil poo is a trace fossil and shows what animals ate
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
4	fossil	fossil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fossil	fossil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	obj	_	_
13	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | can | It | a trace fossil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **eat** | past | animals |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only bird poo can be a fossil

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up:t7:o2:1
# text = Only bird poo can be a fossil
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fossil	fossil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | can | bird poo | a fossil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Fossil poo is just a joke in films

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up:t7:o3:1
# text = Fossil poo is just a joke in films
1	Fossil	fossil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Fossil poo | a joke |  | films |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Right, only hard bones and shells can ever be fossils, never poo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up:t7:o4:1
# text = Right, only hard bones and shells can ever be fossils, never poo
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	fossils	fossil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | can | hard bones and shells | fossils and poo |  |  | ever |  | tree rules |

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**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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