Exam question 1 · The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life u…

Identify the organism which is acknowledged to be the largest animal ever to have existed.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, acknowledge, be, exist · To what, where: organism, largest animal

This is exam question 1 of lesson 171 «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 organism	det
3	organism	organism	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 acknowledged	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 acknowledged	aux:pass
6	acknowledged	acknowledge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 organism	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	11 animal	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 animal	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 animal	det
10	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 animal	amod
11	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 acknowledged	advcl
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 existed	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	15 existed	mark
14	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 existed	aux
15	existed	exist	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 acknowledged	advcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the organism		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent organism=Theme
2	acknowledge	present · passive		the organism		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	is a	to-infinitive		the largest animal		tree rules
4	exist	to-infinitive · perfect			ever	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

The largest of the dinosaurs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 largest	det
2	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 dinosaurs	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dinosaurs	det
5	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 largest	obl

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The colossal squid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 squid	det
2	colossal	colossal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 squid	amod
3	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The blue whale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 whale	det
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 whale	amod
3	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The southern elephant seal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seal	det
2	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seal	amod
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seal	compound
4	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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