Test 11 · ★★ · Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, s…
A coral reef is recorded at night. What will the recording sound like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: record, sound · To what, where: coral reef
This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 230 «Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans» 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: A coral reef is recorded at night.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 reef | det |
| 2 | coral | coral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reef | amod |
| 3 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recorded | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 recorded | aux:pass |
| 5 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 night | case |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recorded | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 recorded | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | present · passive | a coral reef | night | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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: What will the recording sound like?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 sound | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 sound | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 recording | det |
| 4 | recording | recording | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sound | nsubj |
| 5 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 5 sound | discourse |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sound | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | future | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Totally silent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Totally | totally | ADV | _ | 2 silent | advmod |
| 2 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Like birds singing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 2 birds | case |
| 2 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 singing | obl |
| 3 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | gerund | like birds | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Noisy with crackles from shrimps and grunts from fish
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crackles | amod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 crackles | case |
| 3 | crackles | crackle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 shrimps | case |
| 5 | shrimps | shrimp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crackles | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 grunts | cc |
| 7 | grunts | grunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shrimps | conj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 fish | case |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shrimps | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Only like waves breaking far away on the beach
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 waves | advmod |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 waves | case |
| 3 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 waves | acl |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 away | advmod |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 breaking | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 beach | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beach | det |
| 9 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 breaking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | gerund | waves not said here | the beach | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beach=Location |
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