Test 6 · ★★ · The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark a…

«that shark's 400?? no way, they're just guessing» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shark · What happens: guess, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 169 «The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	13 guessing	punct
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 shark	det
3	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 guessing	nsubj
4	's	's	PART	_	3 shark	case
5	400	400	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 shark	appos
6	??	??	SYM	_	8 way	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 400	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 shark	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 guessing	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 guessing	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 guessing	advmod
13	guessing	guess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 guessing	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 guessing	ccomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 guessing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess in a quote	present · progressive	that shark						vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present						right property	tree rules

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

Option 1

It is a guess with no evidence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 guess	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 guess	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 guess	det
4	guess	guess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 evidence	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 evidence	det
7	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guess	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a guess				with no evidence	tree rules

Option 2

They counted its birthdays

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 counted	nsubj
2	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 birthdays	nmod:poss
4	birthdays	birthday	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 counted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	past	They	its birthdays					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birthday=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Sharks live only ten years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 ten	advmod
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Sharks				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Scientists measured it with a carbon clock in its eye lens, though the age is only an estimate

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 measured	nsubj
2	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 measured	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 clock	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 clock	det
6	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 clock	compound
7	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 measured	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 lens	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 lens	nmod:poss
10	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lens	compound
11	lens	lens	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 measured	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 estimate	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 estimate	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 age	det
15	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 estimate	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 estimate	cop
17	only	only	ADV	_	19 estimate	advmod
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 estimate	det
19	estimate	estimate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 measured	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	past	Scientists	it		clock's eye lens		with a carbon clock	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value
2	is a	present	the age	a estimate					tree rules

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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