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title: Ben reckons every dead animal turns into a fossil eventually. Right? — Fossils · tree and pragmatics
description: Ben reckons every dead animal turns into a fossil eventually. Right? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 57 «Fossils» of the geography 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 1 · ★ · Fossils

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Ben reckons every dead animal turns into a fossil eventually. Right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Ben, dead animal · **What happens:** reckon, turn · **To what, where:** fossil

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 57 «Fossils» of the geography 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/geography/57-fossils/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ben reckons every dead animal turns into a fossil eventually.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:57-fossils:t1:1
# text = Ben reckons every dead animal turns into a fossil eventually.
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fossil	fossil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	eventually	eventually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | Ben |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | present | every dead animal |  |  | a fossil |  | eventually *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into fossil=Trajectory |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Right?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:57-fossils:t1:2
# text = Right?
1	Right	right	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, every one does after about 100 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:57-fossils:t1:o1:1
# text = Yes, every one does after about 100 years
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | every one |  |  |  | year |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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No, only animals that died in caves or under the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:57-fossils:t1:o2:1
# text = No, only animals that died in caves or under the sea
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | animals |  |  |  |  | under the sea; in caves | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in cave=Attribute |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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No, only a tiny fraction ever become fossils

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:57-fossils:t1:o3:1
# text = No, only a tiny fraction ever become fossils
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fraction	fraction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
8	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	fossils	fossil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | a tiny fraction | fossils |  |  | ever |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, but only the big ones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:57-fossils:t1:o4:1
# text = Yes, but only the big ones
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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