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title: «just one reason the mammoths died, climate, done» What is the fair… — Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears… · tree and pragmatics
description: «just one reason the mammoths died, climate, done» What is the fair view? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 385 «Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Si…

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«just one reason the mammoths died, climate, done» What is the fair view?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mammoths · **What happens:** die, do, be · **To what, where:** one reason, fair view

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 385 «Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses» 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/385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses:t10:1
# text = «just one reason the mammoths died, climate, done» What is the fair view?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mammoths	mammoth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** *in a quote* | past | the mammoths | one reason and climate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | the fair view |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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It was only a giant meteor

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses:t10:o1:1
# text = It was only a giant meteor
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	meteor	meteor	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** | past | It | a giant meteor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It was only one big flood

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses:t10:o2:1
# text = It was only one big flood
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	flood	flood	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** | past | It | one big flood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Climate and people both mattered and scientists argue how much

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses:t10:o3:1
# text = Climate and people both mattered and scientists argue how much
1	Climate	climate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	both	both	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	mattered	matter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	argue	argue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **matter** | past | Climate and people |  |  |  |  | both *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | scientists | much |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent much=Topic |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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People had nothing to do with it ever, because they could not hunt such huge animals

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses:t10:o4:1
# text = People had nothing to do with it ever, because they could not hunt such huge animals
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	obj	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | People | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  | ever | with it | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **hunt** | could | People | such huge animals |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |

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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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