Test 9 · ★★ · Whales

Which animal is a whale's closest living land relative?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: animal · What happens: be · To what, where: closest living land relative

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 relative	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 relative	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 whale	det
5	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 relative	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 whale	case
7	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 relative	amod
8	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 relative	amod
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 relative	compound
10	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 relative	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	which animal	a whale's closest living land relative					tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

The elephant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 elephant	det
2	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The hippo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hippo	det
2	hippo	hippo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The walrus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 walrus	det
2	walrus	walrus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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.

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