Test 10 · ★ · Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant…

«giant fish as big as a car? must be a whale» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: big, whale · What happens: be · To what, where: whale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 184 «Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal» 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	_	5 big	punct
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fish	amod
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 big	nsubj
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 big	advmod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 whale	nsubj
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 car	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 car	det
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 big	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 big	punct
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 whale	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 whale	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 whale	det
13	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 whale	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 whale	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 whale	punct

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

It was a giant freshwater stingray caught in the Mekong in 2022

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	6 stingray	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stingray	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stingray	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stingray	amod
5	freshwater	freshwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stingray	compound
6	stingray	stingray	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stingray	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 Mekong	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Mekong	det
10	Mekong	Mekong	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 caught	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 2022	case
12	2022	2022	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a giant freshwater stingray					tree rules
2	catch	participle		a giant freshwater stingray not said here		the Mekong		in 2022	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It was a whale in a river

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	4 whale	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 whale	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 whale	det
4	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whale	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a whale		a river			tree rules

Option 3

It was a shark from the sea

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	4 shark	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shark	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shark	det
4	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shark	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a shark		the sea			tree rules

Option 4

No fish that big exists

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 exists	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 big	nsubj
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fish	amod
5	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	exist	present	no fish						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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