Test 1 · The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life u…
In a cartoon like Finding Nemo two fish get swallowed and swim around inside a blue whale's mouth. What is real?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: swallow, swim around, be · To what, where: two fish, cartoon, mouth
This is test 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. 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 like Finding Nemo two fish get swallowed and swim around inside a blue whale's mouth.
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 | 10 swallowed | obl |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 Finding | case |
| 5 | Finding | Finding | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cartoon | nmod |
| 6 | Nemo | Nemo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Finding | flat |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 fish | nummod |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 swallowed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 10 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 swim | cc |
| 12 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 swallowed | conj |
| 13 | around | around | ADV | _ | 12 swim | advmod |
| 14 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 19 mouth | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 whale | det |
| 16 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 whale | amod |
| 17 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 whale | case |
| 19 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swim | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 swallowed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | present · passive | two fish | a cartoon like Finding | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | swim around | present | a blue whale's mouth | around property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside mouth=Trajectory |
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
Blue whales chew sharks with huge teeth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 whales | amod |
| 2 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chew | nsubj |
| 3 | chew | chew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chew | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 teeth | case |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 teeth | amod |
| 7 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chew | present | Blue whales | sharks | with huge teeth | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A blue whale gulps water and strains out krill, then swallows only small food
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 whale | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 whale | amod |
| 3 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gulps | nsubj |
| 4 | gulps | gulp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gulps | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 strains | cc |
| 7 | strains | strain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gulps | conj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 strains | compound:prt |
| 9 | krill | krill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strains | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swallows | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 swallows | advmod |
| 12 | swallows | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gulps | conj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 small | advmod |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 food | amod |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swallows | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gulp | present | a blue whale | water | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 2 | strain out | present | a blue whale not said here | krill | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent krill=Source | ||||
| 3 | swallow | present | a blue whale not said here | small food | then | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
Option 3
Blue whales eat only seaweed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 whales | amod |
| 2 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 seaweed | advmod |
| 5 | seaweed | seaweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Blue whales | seaweed | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seaweed=Patient |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Blue whales swallow big fish whole, and even small sharks, every single day
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 whales | amod |
| 2 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swallow | nsubj |
| 3 | swallow | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fish | amod |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swallow | obj |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 swallow | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sharks | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sharks | cc |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 sharks | advmod |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sharks | amod |
| 11 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swallow | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 day | punct |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 14 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swallow | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | present | Blue whales | big fish | day | small sharks obl; whole property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
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