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description: Ben squashes Earth's whole history into one day. About when do the dinosaurs die out on his clock? Test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 125 «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; M
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# Test 8 · ★★★ · BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines

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Ben squashes Earth's whole history into one day. About when do the dinosaurs die out on his clock?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ben, dinosaurs · **What happens:** squash, die out · **To what, where:** whole history, clock

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This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 125 «BC and AD, dinosaurs and pyramids, and timelines» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ben squashes Earth's whole history into one day.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines:t8:1
# text = Ben squashes Earth's whole history into one day.
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	squashes	squash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **squash** | present | Ben | Earth's whole history |  |  | day |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient |

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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:* About when do the dinosaurs die out on his clock?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines:t8:2
# text = About when do the dinosaurs die out on his clock?
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die out** | present · do-support | the dinosaurs |  |  | Earth's clock |  | about *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Exactly at noon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines:t8:o1:1
# text = Exactly at noon
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Just after midnight at the very start

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines:t8:o2:1
# text = Just after midnight at the very start
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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About 21 minutes before midnight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines:t8:o3:1
# text = About 21 minutes before midnight
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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At breakfast time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:125-bc-ad-dinosaurs-pyramids-timelines:t8:o4:1
# text = At breakfast time
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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