Test 10 · Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, gr…
A child says baleen is just big teeth. What is right?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child · What happens: say, be · To what, where: baleen big teeth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 of lesson 312 «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke» 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 child says baleen is just big teeth.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | baleen | baleen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 teeth | compound |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 teeth | cop |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 teeth | advmod |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 teeth | amod |
| 8 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 says | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | baleen big teeth | 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: What is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
No, baleen is keratin plates like fingernails, used as a sieve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 plates | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | baleen | baleen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plates | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 plates | cop |
| 5 | keratin | keratin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plates | compound |
| 6 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 fingernails | case |
| 8 | fingernails | fingernail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 plates | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 used | punct |
| 10 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 plates | acl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 sieve | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sieve | det |
| 13 | sieve | sieve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 used | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | baleen | keratin plates | like fingernails | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | participle | keratin plates not said here | as a sieve | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
No, baleen is made of shell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 made | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | baleen | baleen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 shell | case |
| 7 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | baleen | of shell | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
Option 3
Yes, baleen is bone, like the tusk of an elephant or a walrus
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 bone | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | baleen | baleen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bone | compound |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bone | cop |
| 5 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tusk | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 tusk | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tusk | det |
| 9 | tusk | tusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bone | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 elephant | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 elephant | det |
| 12 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tusk | nmod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 walrus | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 walrus | det |
| 15 | walrus | walrus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bone | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | baleen bone or a walrus | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, they are teeth that fell out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 teeth | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 teeth | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 teeth | cop |
| 5 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 teeth | acl:relcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 fell | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | they | teeth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall out | past | teeth | out property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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