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description: «that shiny brown stone's just a rock, why's it in a museum» What could it be? Test 6 of lesson 74 «Fossils: how we know about life long ago» 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 wrong.
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# Test 6 · Fossils: how we know about life long ago

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«that shiny brown stone's just a rock, why's it in a museum» What could it be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** museum

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This is test 6 of lesson 74 «Fossils: how we know about life long ago» 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/74-fossils-life-long-ago/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:74-fossils-life-long-ago:t6:1
# text = «that shiny brown stone's just a rock, why's it in a museum» What could it be?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	shiny	shiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	museum	museum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | a museum |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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A piece of melted meteor that fell from space onto the beach

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:74-fossils-life-long-ago:t6:o1:1
# text = A piece of melted meteor that fell from space onto the beach
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	meteor	meteor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fall** | past | melted meteor |  |  | space |  | onto the beach | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from space=Initial\_Location onto beach=Destination |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A coprolite, fossil poo that shows what an animal ate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:74-fossils-life-long-ago:t6:o2:1
# text = A coprolite, fossil poo that shows what an animal ate
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	coprolite	coprolite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	fossil	fossil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	ate	ate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | a coprolite and fossil poo |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A dinosaur egg that never hatched

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:74-fossils-life-long-ago:t6:o3:1
# text = A dinosaur egg that never hatched
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	hatched	hatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hatch** | past |  | a dinosaur egg |  |  |  |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A stone a dinosaur swallowed for fun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:74-fossils-life-long-ago:t6:o4:1
# text = A stone a dinosaur swallowed for fun
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dinosaur	dinosaur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | participle |  | a stone dinosaur *not said here* |  |  |  | for fun | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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