Test 5 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived

«loudest animal is the lion obviously» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: loudest animal, lion · What happens: be · To what, where: lion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 187 «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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 loudest	punct
2	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 animal	amod
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lion	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lion	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lion	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	6 lion	advmod
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 lion	punct
9	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 right	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lion	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 lion	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	loudest animal	the lion				obviously property	tree rules
2	is	present	the lion					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

Right, nothing is louder

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 louder	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 louder	cop
5	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 2

Fish make no sound at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 sound	det
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Fish	no sound		all			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The sperm whale makes the loudest sound of any animal

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	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sound	det
6	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 sound	amod
7	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 animal	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 animal	det
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sound	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the sperm whale	the loudest sound of any animal					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Product

Option 4

The tiny house mouse is the loudest, squeaking in the walls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mouse	amod
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mouse	compound
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loudest	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 loudest	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 loudest	det
7	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 squeaking	punct
9	squeaking	squeak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 loudest	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 walls	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 walls	det
12	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 squeaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the tiny house mouse					loud property	tree rules
2	squeak	gerund	the tiny house mouse not said here			the walls			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wall=Location

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