Test 10 · The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life u…

In an old cartoon a sailor gets swallowed whole by a giant whale and lives inside it. Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: giant whale · What happens: swallow, live, be · To what, where: sailor, old cartoon

This is test 10 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 an old cartoon a sailor gets swallowed whole by a giant whale and lives inside it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 cartoon	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cartoon	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cartoon	amod
4	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swallowed	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sailor	det
6	sailor	sailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swallowed	nsubj
7	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 swallowed	aux:pass
8	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 swallowed	xcomp
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 whale	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 whale	det
12	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 whale	amod
13	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swallowed	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lives	cc
15	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 swallowed	conj
16	inside	inside	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 lives	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 swallowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	present · passive	a giant whale	a sailor		a old cartoon		whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	live	present	a giant whale not said here			sailor			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside it=Location

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: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	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	_	3 true	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A blue whale's throat is far too narrow to swallow a person

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	5 throat	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 whale	case
5	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 narrow	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 narrow	cop
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 narrow	advmod
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 narrow	advmod
9	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 swallow	mark
11	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 narrow	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 person	det
13	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swallow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a blue whale's throat					far, narrow property	tree rules
2	swallow	to-infinitive	a blue whale's throat not said here	a person					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient

Option 2

Every whale has a little room inside it with a table and some chairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 whale	det
2	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 room	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 room	amod
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	inside	inside	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 room	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 table	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 table	det
11	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 room	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 chairs	cc
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 chairs	det
14	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 room	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	every whale	a little room and some chairs		it		with a table	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient

Option 3

Blue whales swallow whole ships every year

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	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ships	amod
5	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swallow	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 year	det
7	year	year	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	whole ships			year		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient

Option 4

Whales keep people as pets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	nsubj
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 pets	case
5	pets	pet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Whales	people				as pets	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme

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