Test 4 · ★★ · Whales

Why could a blue whale never have lived on land at its size?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: not live · To what, where: land

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	8 lived	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 whale	det
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 whale	amod
5	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 could	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 lived	advmod
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	aux
8	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 land	case
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 size	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 size	nmod:poss
13	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not live	could · perfect				land		at whale's size	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at size=Location

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

Land is too warm for blue whales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warm	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 warm	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 warm	advmod
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 whales	case
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 whales	amod
7	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 warm	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Land					for blue whales; warm property	tree rules

Option 2

It would get lost on land without the ocean currents to guide it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux
3	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 lost	aux:pass
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 land	case
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl
7	without	without	ADP	_	10 currents	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 currents	det
9	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 currents	compound
10	currents	current	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lost	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 guide	mark
12	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lost	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 guide	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would · passive		It		land		without the ocean currents	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	guide	to-infinitive		land					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Water supports its weight, and on land its body would crush itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 supports	nsubj
2	supports	support	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 weight	nmod:poss
4	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 supports	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 crush	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 crush	cc
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 land	case
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crush	obl
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 body	nmod:poss
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crush	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 crush	aux
12	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 supports	conj
13	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 crush	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	support	present	Water	Water's weight					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer weight=Stimulus
2	crush	would	Water's body	body		land			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient

Option 4

Its baleen would grow too long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 baleen	nmod:poss
2	baleen	baleen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 grow	aux
4	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 grow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	would	Its baleen					long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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