Test 4 · Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, gr…

«whales eat all the krill, so kill whales = more fish for us, simple» What is the truth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: whales, truth · What happens: eat, kill, be · To what, where: krill, whales · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct
2	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 krill	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 krill	det
6	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kill	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 kill	advmod
9	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 eat	conj
10	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 kill	obj
11	=	=	SYM	_	13 fish	punct
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 fish	amod
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 whales	conj
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 us	case
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 kill	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 simple	punct
17	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 What	amod
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 simple	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 eat	parataxis
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 What	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 truth	det
22	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 What	nsubj
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 eat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present	whales	all krill		tree rules
2	kill in a quote	infinitive	whales not said here	whales and more fish	for us	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Theme
3	is a	present	the truth			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

True, krill grow faster with no whales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 krill	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	nsubj
4	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 grow	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 whales	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 whales	det
8	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	True krill					with no whales; fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Whale poo feeds the plants that feed krill, so fewer whales can mean less krill

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 poo	compound
2	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feeds	nsubj
3	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plants	det
5	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feeds	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 feed	nsubj
7	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plants	acl:relcl
8	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mean	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 mean	advmod
11	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 whales	amod
12	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 mean	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 mean	aux
14	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 feeds	parataxis
15	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 krill	amod
16	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	feed	present	Whale poo	the plants	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Recipient
2	feed	present	the plants	krill	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Recipient
3	mean	can	fewer whales	less krill	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Topic

Option 3

True, whales are the only thing eating krill in the whole ocean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 whales	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct
3	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thing	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 thing	acl
9	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eating	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 ocean	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ocean	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ocean	amod
13	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	True whales	the only thing					tree rules
2	eat	gerund	the only thing not said here	krill		the whole ocean			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Patient

Option 4

Whales do not eat krill at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eat	advmod
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	present · do-support	Whales	krill		all			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Patient

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