Test 7 · ★★ · The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale…
«ugliest animal in the world is the blobfish, it's proven» What is right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ugliest animal, blobfish · What happens: be, prove · To what, where: blobfish, animal
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 176 «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» 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 | _ | 3 animal | punct |
| 2 | ugliest | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 animal | amod |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blobfish | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 world | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 animal | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 blobfish | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 blobfish | det |
| 9 | blobfish | blobfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 proven | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 proven | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 proven | aux:pass |
| 13 | proven | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 blobfish | acl:relcl |
| 14 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 13 proven | punct |
| 15 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 right | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 right | cop |
| 17 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 proven | conj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 blobfish | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | ugliest animal in the world | the blobfish | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prove in a quote | present · passive | the blobfish not said here | animal | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | 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, scientists measured ugliness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 measured | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 measured | nsubj |
| 4 | measured | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ugliness | ugliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 measured | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | past | scientists | ugliness | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme ugliness=Value |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, it looks like that all its life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 looks | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looks | nsubj |
| 4 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 looks | obl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 life | det:predet |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 life | nmod:poss |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looks | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | it | its life | like that | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
That vote used a photo of a fish hurt by being pulled up, so it was not fair
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 vote | det |
| 2 | vote | vote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | nsubj |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 photo | det |
| 5 | photo | photo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 used | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fish | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fish | det |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 photo | nmod |
| 9 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 fish | acl |
| 10 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 pulled | mark |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 pulled | aux:pass |
| 12 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 hurt | advcl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 pulled | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fair | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 fair | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fair | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fair | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 fair | advmod |
| 19 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 used | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | that vote | a photo of a fish | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent photo=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hurt | participle | a fish not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | pull up | gerund · passive | vn slide-11.2 «NP V» | ||||||
| 4 | not is | past | vote | fair property | tree rules |
Option 4
No, the blobfish is a kind of jellyfish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 kind | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 blobfish | det |
| 4 | blobfish | blobfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kind | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kind | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kind | det |
| 7 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 jellyfish | case |
| 9 | jellyfish | jellyfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kind | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the blobfish | a kind | of jellyfish | tree rules |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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