Test 8 · ★★ · The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark a…

«a whale with a harpoon from like 1880 in it, it's a fake story» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whale, fake story · What happens: be · To what, where: fake story

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	_	3 whale	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 whale	det
3	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 story	nsubj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 harpoon	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 harpoon	det
6	harpoon	harpoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whale	nmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 1880	case
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 1880	case
9	1880	1880	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 harpoon	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 1880	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 whale	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 story	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 story	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 story	det
16	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 story	amod
17	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 story	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 story	acl:relcl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 story	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	a whale with a harpoon from 1880 in harpoon	a fake story					tree rules
2	is	present	a fake story					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 was a shark, not a whale

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 shark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shark	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shark	det
4	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 whale	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 whale	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 whale	det
8	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shark	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a shark and a whale					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It is fake, because whales only ever live about twenty years

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	3 fake	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fake	cop
3	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 live	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 live	mark
6	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 live	nsubj
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 live	advmod
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 live	advmod
9	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fake	conj
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 twenty	advmod
11	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 years	nummod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 live	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					fake property	tree rules
2	live	present	whales				ever; year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is true: bowheads can live over two hundred years

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	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 live	punct
5	bowheads	bowhead	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 live	aux
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 true	parataxis
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 years	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hundred	compound
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					true property	tree rules
2	live	can	bowheads				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The harpoon was put in last year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 harpoon	det
2	harpoon	harpoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux:pass
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 year	case
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 year	amod
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · passive		the harpoon			year		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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