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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

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