Test 5 · ★★ · Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, s…
A blue whale and a sperm whale are side by side in a book. Which one hunts with echoes?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: blue whale, one · What happens: be, hunt · To what, where: side
This is test 5 · ★★ 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 blue whale and a sperm whale are side by side in a book.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 whale | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 whale | amod |
| 3 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 whale | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 whale | det |
| 6 | sperm | sperm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 whale | compound |
| 7 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whale | conj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 side | cop |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 book | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 book | det |
| 14 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 side | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a blue whale and a sperm whale | side | by side in a book | 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.
Sentence 2: Which one hunts with echoes?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hunts | nsubj |
| 3 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 echoes | case |
| 5 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hunts | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 hunts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | present | which one | with echoes | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Neither of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Neither | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The blue whale, a baleen whale
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 | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 whale | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 whale | det |
| 6 | baleen | baleen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 whale | compound |
| 7 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whale | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The sperm whale, a toothed whale
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 | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 whale | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 whale | det |
| 6 | toothed | toothed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 whale | amod |
| 7 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whale | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Both of them
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Both | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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