Test 11 · Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, gr…
Count it: a grey whale swims 18,000 kilometres a year for 10 years. How far is that?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, grey whale, that · What happens: count, swim, be · To what, where: it, 18,000 kilometres
This is test 11 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: Count it: a grey whale swims 18,000 kilometres a year for 10 years.
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 | _ | 7 swims | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 whale | det |
| 5 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 whale | amod |
| 6 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swims | nsubj |
| 7 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 8 | 18,000 | 18,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 kilometres | nummod |
| 9 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 swims | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 year | det |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swims | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 13 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 swims | obl |
| 15 | . | . | 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 | swim | present | a grey whale | 18,000 kilometres | year | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kilometre=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: How far is that?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 far | cop |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 far | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 far | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | far property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
1,800 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,800 | 1,800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 kilometres | nummod |
| 2 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
180,000 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 180,000 | 180,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 kilometres | nummod |
| 2 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
18,000 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18,000 | 18,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 kilometres | nummod |
| 2 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
28,000 kilometres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 28,000 | 28,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 kilometres | nummod |
| 2 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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