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Test 9 · ★ · Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbego…

Count it: a whale shark can be about 60 times as long as a dwarf lanternshark. If a lanternshark is 20 centimetres, about how long is the whale shark?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, whale shark, lanternshark · What happens: count, be · To what, where: it, 20 centimetres, whale shark

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 311 «Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks» 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: Count it: a whale shark can be about 60 times as long as a dwarf lanternshark.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Count	obj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 long	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shark	det
5	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shark	compound
6	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 long	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 long	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 long	cop
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 60	advmod
10	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 times	nummod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 be	obl:unmarked
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 long	advmod
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Count	advmod
14	as	as	ADP	_	17 lanternshark	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lanternshark	det
16	dwarf	dwarf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lanternshark	amod
17	lanternshark	lanternshark	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 long	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Count	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here	it					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	can	a whale shark					as a dwarf lanternshark; long property	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.

Sentence 2: If a lanternshark is 20 centimetres, about how long is the whale shark?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 centimetres	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lanternshark	det
3	lanternshark	lanternshark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 centimetres	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 centimetres	cop
5	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 centimetres	nummod
6	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shark	punct
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 long	case
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 shark	obl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 shark	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shark	det
13	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shark	compound
14	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 centimetres	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 centimetres	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a lanternshark	20 centimetres and the whale shark					tree rules
2	is a	present	a lanternshark not said here	the whale shark					tree rules

The options

Option 1

About 1.2 metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 1.2	advmod
2	1.2	1.2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 metres	nummod
3	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

About 80 centimetres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 80	advmod
2	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 centimetres	nummod
3	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

About 12 metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 12	advmod
2	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 metres	nummod
3	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

About 60 metres long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 60	advmod
2	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 metres	nummod
3	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 long	obl:unmarked
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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