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Test 6 · ★★ · Whales

In the Pinocchio story a whale swallows a man whole. Why is this very unlikely for a blue whale?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whale, this · What happens: swallow, be · To what, where: man, Pinocchio story

This is test 6 · ★★ 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: In the Pinocchio story a whale swallows a man whole.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 story	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 story	det
3	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 story	compound
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swallows	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 whale	det
6	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swallows	nsubj
7	swallows	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swallows	obj
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 swallows	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 swallows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	present	a whale	a man		the Pinocchio story		whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient

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: Why is this very unlikely for a blue whale?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 unlikely	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 unlikely	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 unlikely	nsubj
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 unlikely	advmod
5	unlikely	unlikely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 whale	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 whale	det
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 whale	amod
9	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unlikely	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 unlikely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this					for a blue whale; unlikely property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It only eats on Sundays

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	3 eats	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 eats	advmod
3	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 Sundays	case
5	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 eats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	It				sunday		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It lives far too deep in the sea for people to reach

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	2 lives	nsubj
2	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 deep	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 deep	advmod
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lives	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 deep	obl
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 reach	mark
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 reach	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 reach	mark
12	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lives	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	It					deep property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	to-infinitive	people						vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Its teeth would chew him up first

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 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chew	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 chew	aux
4	chew	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chew	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 chew	compound:prt
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 chew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew up	would	Its teeth	him = he				first property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its throat is far too narrow, as it eats tiny krill

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 throat	nmod:poss
2	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 narrow	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 narrow	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 narrow	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 narrow	advmod
6	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eats	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 eats	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 eats	nsubj
10	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 narrow	conj
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 krill	amod
12	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its throat					far, narrow property	tree rules
2	eat	present	throat	tiny krill					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Patient

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