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A sperm whale comes up with fresh round marks on its head. What most likely happened?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sperm whale · What happens: come up, happen

This is test 7 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: A sperm whale comes up with fresh round marks on its head.

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	sperm	sperm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whale	compound
3	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 comes	nsubj
4	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 comes	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 marks	case
7	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 marks	amod
8	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 marks	amod
9	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 comes	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 head	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 marks	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 comes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	present	a sperm whale					with fresh round marks on whale's head	vn escape-51.1-1 «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.

Sentence 2: What most likely happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happened	nsubj
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 likely	advmod
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	4 happened	advmod
4	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	participle						likely property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

It caught a cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 caught	nsubj
2	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cold	det
4	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	It	a cold					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It fought a squid in the deep and the suckers marked it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 squid	det
4	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fought	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 deep	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deep	det
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fought	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 marked	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 suckers	det
10	suckers	sucker	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 marked	nsubj
11	marked	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fought	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 marked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	It	a squid		the deep			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squid=Co-Agent
2	mark	past	the suckers	squid					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination

Option 3

It bumped into a ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bumped	nsubj
2	bumped	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 ship	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ship	det
5	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bump	past	It			a ship			vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ship=Location

Option 4

It slept on sharp rocks that had round holes all over them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slept	nsubj
2	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 rocks	case
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rocks	amod
5	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 slept	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rocks	acl:relcl
8	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 holes	amod
9	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	all	all	ADV	_	12 them	advmod
11	over	over	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	It			sharp rocks		over holes = hole	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	sharp rocks	round holes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient

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