Test 2 · The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life u…

«my mate says blue whales are smaller than the biggest dinosaurs» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, blue whales · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mate	nmod:poss
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 whales	amod
6	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 smaller	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 smaller	cop
8	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 says	ccomp
9	than	than	ADP	_	12 dinosaurs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dinosaurs	det
11	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 dinosaurs	amod
12	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 right	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 dinosaurs	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 smaller	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my mate		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	blue whales	small property	tree rules
3	is	present		than the biggest dinosaurs; 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, the blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever lived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 animal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 whale	det
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 whale	amod
5	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 animal	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 animal	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 animal	det
8	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 animal	amod
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lived	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lived	aux
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 lived	advmod
13	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 animal	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the blue whale	the biggest animal					tree rules
2	live	present · perfect	the biggest animal				ever		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, the blue whale is only a medium-sized animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	12 animal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 whale	det
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 whale	amod
5	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 animal	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 animal	cop
7	only	only	ADV	_	12 animal	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 animal	det
9	medium	medium	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sized	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 medium	punct
11	sized	size	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 animal	amod
12	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	size	participle							tree rules
2	is a	present	the blue whale	a sized animal					tree rules

Option 3

No, sharks are the biggest animals that have ever lived in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 animals	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 animals	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 animals	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animals	det
6	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lived	nsubj
9	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 lived	aux
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 lived	advmod
11	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 animals	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	sharks	the biggest animals					tree rules
2	live	present · perfect	the biggest animals			the sea	ever		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location

Option 4

Yes, dinosaurs were always bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 dinosaurs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	dinosaurs	dinosaur	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bigger	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bigger	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 bigger	advmod
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	dinosaurs					always, big property	tree rules

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