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Test 7 · ★★ · Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, s…

After 11 September 2001 there were fewer ships for a few days. What did scientists find in right whales?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fewer ships, scientists · What happens: be, find

This is test 7 · ★★ 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: After 11 September 2001 there were fewer ships for a few days.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	2 11	case
2	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 were	obl
3	September	September	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 11	nmod:unmarked
4	2001	2001	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 11	nmod:unmarked
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 ships	amod
8	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 were	nsubj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 days	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 days	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ships	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 were	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	fewer ships for a few days			there	after 11 September 2001		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 did scientists find in right whales?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 find	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	nsubj
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 whales	case
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 whales	amod
7	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 find	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · do-support	scientists					in right whales	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

More stress than before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 stress	amod
2	stress	stress	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	than	than	ADP	_	4 before	case
4	before	before	ADV	_	2 stress	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Calmer stress levels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calmer	calm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 levels	amod
2	stress	stress	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 levels	compound
3	levels	level	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

They swam into the empty ports

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 swam	nsubj
2	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 ports	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ports	det
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ports	amod
6	ports	port	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 swam	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	They			the empty ports			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into port=Destination

Option 4

They forgot their songs

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 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 songs	nmod:poss
4	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forgot	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	They	their songs					tree rules
2	sing		their = they						nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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