Test 9 · ★ · Dolphins, porpoises and seals
A sea animal has small ear flaps and walks on its flippers at the zoo. What is it most likely?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sea animal · What happens: have, walk, be · To what, where: small ear flaps, flippers, animal
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 27 «Dolphins, porpoises and seals» 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: A sea animal has small ear flaps and walks on its flippers at the zoo.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 animal | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 animal | compound |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flaps | amod |
| 6 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flaps | compound |
| 7 | flaps | flap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 walks | cc |
| 9 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 flippers | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 flippers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | flippers | flipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 walks | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 zoo | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 zoo | det |
| 15 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walks | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a sea animal | small ear flaps | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flap=Patient | ||||
| 2 | walk | present | a sea animal not said here | animal's flippers | at the zoo | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on flipper=Trajectory |
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 is it most likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 it | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 1 What | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | animal | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A young dolphin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dolphin | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dolphin | amod |
| 3 | dolphin | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A sea lion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lion | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lion | compound |
| 3 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A harbour seal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 seal | det |
| 2 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seal | compound |
| 3 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A harbour porpoise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 porpoise | det |
| 2 | harbour | harbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 porpoise | compound |
| 3 | porpoise | porpoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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