Test 11 · ★★ · Whales
Most whaling was banned in 1986. What happened to humpback whales afterwards?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: ban, happen · To what, where: Most whaling, 1986
This is test 11 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: Most whaling was banned in 1986.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 whaling | amod |
| 2 | whaling | whaling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 banned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 banned | aux:pass |
| 4 | banned | ban | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 1986 | case |
| 6 | 1986 | 1986 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 banned | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 banned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ban | past · passive | Most whaling | 1986 | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 happened to humpback whales afterwards?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 whales | case |
| 4 | humpback | humpback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whales | compound |
| 5 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 happened | obl |
| 6 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 2 happened | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | to humpback whales; afterwards property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Their numbers recovered a lot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 numbers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 recovered | nsubj |
| 3 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lot | det |
| 5 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recovered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past | Their numbers | a lot | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
They turned into a new species
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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 species | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 species | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 species | amod |
| 6 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | They | a new species | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into species=Trajectory |
Option 3
Nothing changed at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Nothing | acl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 changed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | participle | all | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
They died out completely
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 died | nsubj |
| 2 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 died | compound:prt |
| 4 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 2 died | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die out | past | They | completely property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/26-whales/t11/