Test 7 · ★★ · The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark a…

In a cartoon a beluga talks in words like a person. What is real?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: beluga · What happens: talk, be · To what, where: cartoon

This is test 7 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon a beluga talks in words like a person.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talks	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 beluga	det
5	beluga	beluga	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talks	nsubj
6	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 words	case
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 talks	obl
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 person	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 person	det
11	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 words	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 talks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	present	a beluga			a cartoon		in words like a person	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: What is real?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 real	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						real property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Belugas only bark like dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Belugas	beluga	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bark	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 bark	advmod
3	bark	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 dogs	case
5	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bark	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	present	Belugas					like dogs	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Belugas make no sounds at all, they are the silent whales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Belugas	beluga	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 sounds	det
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 make	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 whales	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 whales	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 whales	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 whales	det
11	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 whales	amod
12	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Belugas	no sounds		all			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product
2	is a	present	Belugas = beluga	the silent whales					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Real belugas whistle, click and chirp but do not speak words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 belugas	amod
2	belugas	beluga	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 whistle	nsubj
3	whistle	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 click	punct
5	click	click	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 whistle	parataxis
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 chirp	cc
7	chirp	chirp	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 click	conj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 speak	cc
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 speak	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 speak	advmod
11	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 click	conj
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 speak	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	whistle	present	Real belugas		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	click	infinitive			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	chirp	infinitive			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not speak speech: other	infinitive · do-support		words	tree rules

Option 4

Belugas speak English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Belugas	beluga	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 speak	nsubj
2	speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 speak	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	present	Belugas	English					tree rules

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