Test 5 · Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, gr…

From a boat you see a spout shaped like a V. Which whale is it most likely to be?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, spout · What happens: see, shape, be · To what, where: boat, spout · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 boat	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boat	det
3	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
5	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spout	det
7	spout	spout	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 likely	nsubj
8	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 spout	acl
9	like	like	ADP	_	13 whale	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 whale	det
11	V.	V.	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 whale	compound
12	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	13 whale	det
13	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shaped	obl
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 likely	cop
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 likely	nsubj
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 likely	advmod
17	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 see	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 be	mark
19	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 likely	xcomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	you		a boat		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	shape	participle		a spout not said here		like a V. whale	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	is	present	a spout			likely property	tree rules
4	be	to-infinitive	a spout not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

A fin whale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 whale	det
2	fin	fin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whale	compound
3	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A minke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 minke	det
2	minke	minke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A goldfish in a bowl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 goldfish	det
2	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 bowl	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bowl	det
5	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goldfish	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A right whale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 whale	det
2	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 whale	amod
3	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke/t5/