Test 8 · ★★ · Whales

ugh whale poo, gross, why'd anyone care about that

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	ugh	ugh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 poo	amod
2	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poo	compound
3	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gross	punct
5	gross	gross	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poo	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 care	punct
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 care	advmod
8	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 care	aux
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 care	compound
10	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poo	conj
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 that	case
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 care	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It feeds plankton, and plankton makes much of Earth's oxygen

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 feeds	nsubj
2	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	plankton	plankton	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feeds	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 makes	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 makes	cc
6	plankton	plankton	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 makes	nsubj
7	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 feeds	conj
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 makes	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 oxygen	case
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 oxygen	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Earth	case
12	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 much	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	It	plankton					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plankton=Recipient
2	make	present	plankton	much of Earth's oxygen					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset much=Product

Option 2

It turns into the soft white sand that we find on the beach

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 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	7 sand	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sand	det
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sand	amod
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sand	amod
7	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 find	obj
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 find	nsubj
10	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sand	acl:relcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 beach	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beach	det
13	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It			the soft white sand			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into sand=Trajectory
2	find	present	we	the soft white sand		the beach			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic

Option 3

It is used to make whale oil

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 used	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 used	aux:pass
3	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 used	advcl
6	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 oil	compound
7	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · passive		It					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	make	to-infinitive		whale oil					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oil=Product

Option 4

It keeps sharks away from beaches

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 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keeps	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 keeps	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 beaches	case
6	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	sharks				away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Theme

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