Test 10 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest

«jellyfish longer than a blue whale, u serious» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 186 «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» 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 longer	punct
2	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 longer	compound
3	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 serious	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	7 whale	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 whale	det
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 whale	amod
7	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 serious	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 whale	punct
9	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 serious	nsubj
10	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 serious	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 serious	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 serious	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	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 · ← Mova's choice

No jellyfish is ever longer than about one metre, even in the deep sea

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 jellyfish	det
2	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 metre	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 metre	cop
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 longer	advmod
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 metre	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 metre	case
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 one	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 metre	nummod
9	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sea	punct
11	even	even	ADV	_	15 sea	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
14	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sea	amod
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 metre	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	no jellyfish					than one metre and the deep sea; long property	tree rules

Option 2

It was two jellyfish tied together

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 jellyfish	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jellyfish	cop
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 jellyfish	nummod
4	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 jellyfish	acl
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 tied	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	two jellyfish					tree rules
2	tie	participle		two jellyfish not said here				together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A lion's mane found in 1870 was longer than a blue whale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lion	det
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mane	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 lion	case
4	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 longer	nsubj
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 mane	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 1870	case
7	1870	1870	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 found	obl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 longer	cop
9	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
10	than	than	ADP	_	13 whale	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 whale	det
12	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 whale	amod
13	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 longer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	participle		a lion's mane not said here		1870			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	a lion's mane					than a blue whale; long property	tree rules

Option 4

Jellyfish have no tentacles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 tentacles	det
4	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Jellyfish	no tentacles					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tentacle=Patient

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