Test 6 · The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life u…

«whales are just big fish innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: whales, big fish innit · What happens: be · To what, where: big fish innit

This is test 6 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	_	7 innit	punct
2	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 innit	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 innit	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 innit	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 innit	amod
6	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 innit	compound
7	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 right	nsubj
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	7 innit	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	whales	big fish innit					tree rules
2	is	present	big fish innit					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

Yes, they breathe under water with gills like any fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 breathe	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 breathe	nsubj
4	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 breathe	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 gills	case
8	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 breathe	obl
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 fish	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 fish	det
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gills	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	present	they			water		with gills like any fish	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, they lay eggs in the sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lay	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lay	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sand	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sand	det
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	they	eggs		the sand			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in sand=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, whales are mammals that breathe air and feed their babies milk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 whales	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mammals	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mammals	cop
5	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 breathe	nsubj
7	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mammals	acl:relcl
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 breathe	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 feed	cc
10	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 breathe	conj
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 milk	nmod:poss
12	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 milk	compound
13	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	whales	mammals	tree rules
2	breathe	present	mammals	air	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme
3	feed	present	mammals not said here	whales's babies milk	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme

Option 4

No, they are giant squid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 squid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 squid	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 squid	cop
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 squid	amod
6	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	giant squid					tree rules

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