Test 5 · ★★ · Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale…

«a whale is just a massive fish innit» What is wrong with that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: whale, massive fish innit · What happens: be · To what, where: massive fish innit

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 235 «Animal minds: dolphins' names, orca grandmothers and whale songs» 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	_	9 innit	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 whale	det
3	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 innit	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 innit	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	9 innit	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 innit	det
7	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 innit	amod
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 innit	compound
9	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wrong	nsubj
10	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 wrong	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wrong	cop
13	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 that	case
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 wrong	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	a whale	a massive fish innit					tree rules
2	is	present	a massive fish innit					with that; wrong 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Whales are mammals that came from land animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mammals	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mammals	cop
3	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mammals	acl:relcl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 animals	case
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 animals	compound
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Whales	mammals					tree rules
2	come	past	mammals					from land animals	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from animal=Initial_Location

Option 2

Whales are close relatives of octopuses and squid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 relatives	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 relatives	cop
3	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 relatives	amod
4	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 octopuses	case
6	octopuses	octopus	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 relatives	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 squid	cc
8	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 octopuses	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Whales	close relatives				of octopuses and squid	tree rules

Option 3

Whales are giant sharks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sharks	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sharks	cop
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sharks	amod
4	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Whales	giant sharks					tree rules

Option 4

Nothing, whales are fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 whales	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fish	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fish	cop
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nothing whales	fish					tree rules

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