Test 2 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest

«biggest living thing = blue whale, done» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, be · To what, where: blue whale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	_	2 biggest	punct
2	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 thing	amod
3	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whale	nsubj
5	=	=	SYM	_	7 whale	punct
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 whale	amod
7	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 done	punct
9	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 whale	acl
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 done	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 right	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 right	cop
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 done	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 whale	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	participle		blue whale not said here					tree rules
2	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, the giraffe is heavier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 heavier	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giraffe	det
4	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heavier	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heavier	cop
6	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the giraffe					heavy property	tree rules

Option 2

Right, nothing is heavier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	3 nothing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 heavier	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heavier	cop
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	nothing					heavy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The blue whale is the biggest animal, but Pando or a giant fungus may be heavier as single living things

The tree, 20 words

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	7 animal	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 animal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animal	det
6	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 animal	amod
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heavier	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 heavier	cc
10	Pando	Pando	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 heavier	nsubj
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 fungus	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 fungus	det
13	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fungus	amod
14	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Pando	conj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 heavier	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 heavier	cop
17	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 animal	conj
18	as	as	ADP	_	21 things	case
19	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 things	amod
20	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 things	amod
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 heavier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the blue whale	the biggest animal					tree rules
2	is	may	Pando or a giant fungus					as single living things; heavy property	tree rules

Option 4

No, the ostrich is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 ostrich	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ostrich	det
4	ostrich	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	nsubj
5	is	be	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	be	present	the ostrich						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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