Test 10 · ★★ · Whales

Why might an old orca grandmother be so useful to her family?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old orca grandmother · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 26 «Whales» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 useful	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 useful	aux
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 grandmother	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grandmother	amod
5	orca	orca	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grandmother	compound
6	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 useful	nsubj
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 useful	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 useful	advmod
9	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 family	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 family	nmod:poss
12	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 useful	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 useful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	might	a old orca grandmother					to her family; useful 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

She remembers where to find food in hard times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remembers	nsubj
2	remembers	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 find	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 find	mark
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 remembers	xcomp
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 find	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 times	case
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 times	amod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	present	She						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	find	to-infinitive	She not said here	food			time		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

Option 2

She keeps all the young calves warm with her thick blubber

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 calves	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 calves	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 calves	amod
6	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 warm	nsubj
7	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keeps	parataxis
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 blubber	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 blubber	nmod:poss
10	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 blubber	amod
11	blubber	blubber	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 warm	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	She						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	warm	present	all young calves					with her thick blubber	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with blubber=Instrument

Option 3

She is the only one who can sing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 one	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sing	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sing	aux
8	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 one	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	She	the only one					tree rules
2	sing speech: express	can	the only one						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 4

She is the fastest swimmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swimmer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 swimmer	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 swimmer	det
4	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 swimmer	amod
5	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	She	the fastest swimmer					tree rules

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