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Test 9 · ★★ · The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale…

In Pinocchio a giant whale swallows a boat. Which real whale dives into the deep to hunt giant squid?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: giant whale, real whale · What happens: swallow, dive, hunt · To what, where: boat, Pinocchio, deep, giant squid

This is test 9 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: In Pinocchio a giant whale swallows a boat.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	2 Pinocchio	case
2	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 swallows	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 whale	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 whale	amod
5	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallows	nsubj
6	swallows	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boat	det
8	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swallows	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 swallows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	present	a giant whale	a boat		Pinocchio			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Patient

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 real whale dives into the deep to hunt giant squid?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 dives	obj
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 whale	amod
3	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dives	nsubj
4	dives	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 deep	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deep	det
7	deep	deep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dives	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 hunt	mark
9	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dives	advcl
10	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 squid	amod
11	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hunt	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dive	present	real whale			the deep			tree rules
2	hunt	to-infinitive	real whale not said here	giant squid					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squid=Theme

The options

Option 1

The blue whale, using its big eyes in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 whale	det
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 whale	amod
3	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 using	punct
5	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 whale	acl
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eyes	amod
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 using	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 dark	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dark	det
11	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 using	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund	the blue whale not said here	whale's big eyes		the dark			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

Option 2

Killer whales that only eat boats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Killer	killer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whales	compound
2	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 boats	nmod:poss
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 eat	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whales	acl:relcl
6	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present		Killer whales					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient

Option 3

No whale goes into the deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 whale	det
2	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 deep	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deep	det
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	no whale			the deep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into deep=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The sperm whale, using clicks to find them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 whale	det
2	sperm	sperm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whale	compound
3	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 using	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 whale	punct
5	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	clicks	click	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 using	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 find	mark
8	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 using	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund	the sperm whale	clicks					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent click=Patient
2	find	to-infinitive	the sperm whale not said here	clicks = click					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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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