Test 6 · ★★ · Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, s…

«why don't blue whales need clicks, they're massive» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: blue whales, whales, best answer · What happens: need, be · To what, where: clicks

This is test 6 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 need	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 need	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 need	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 whales	advmod
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 whales	amod
6	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 need	nsubj
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	clicks	click	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 need	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 massive	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 massive	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 massive	cop
12	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 need	parataxis
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 massive	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 massive	conj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 What	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 answer	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 answer	amod
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 What	nsubj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need in a quote	present · do-support	blue whales	clicks		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot click=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	whales = whale		massive property	tree rules
3	is a	present	the best answer			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 · ✓ the right answer

They gulp huge mouthfuls of tiny krill, not single fast prey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gulp	nsubj
2	gulp	gulp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mouthfuls	amod
4	mouthfuls	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gulp	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 krill	case
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 krill	amod
7	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mouthfuls	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 prey	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 prey	advmod
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 prey	amod
11	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 prey	amod
12	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 krill	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gulp	present	They	huge mouthfuls of tiny krill and single fast prey					vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=Patient

Option 2

They eat only plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 plants	advmod
4	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	They	plants					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient

Option 3

They see perfectly in the dark sea, so they never need any echoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	2 see	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sea	amod
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 need	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 need	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 need	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 need	advmod
12	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 echoes	det
14	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	They			the dark sea		perfectly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not need	present	they	any echoes					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot echo=Theme

Option 4

They are too lazy to click

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lazy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 lazy	advmod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 click	mark
6	click	click	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lazy	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					lazy property	tree rules
2	click	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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