Test 7 · Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, gr…

«mum, why's the fin whale's face two colours, is it ill» What is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: be · To what, where: face two colours, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 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	_	16 ill	punct
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ill	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 colours	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 colours	advmod
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 colours	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 whale	det
7	fin	fin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 whale	compound
8	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 colours	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 whale	case
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 colours	compound
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 colours	nummod
12	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mum	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 mum	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 ill	cop
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ill	nsubj
16	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 answer	advcl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 ill	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 answer	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 answer	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 answer	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 answer	amod
22	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	mum and the fin whale's face two colours not said here	the fin whale's face two colours		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	mum and the fin whale's face two colours		ill property	tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present		the best answer		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

It painted itself with mud to scare the boats away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 painted	nsubj
2	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 painted	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 mud	case
5	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 painted	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 scare	mark
7	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 painted	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boats	det
9	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 scare	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	7 scare	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past	It	itself = it				with mud	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Destination with mud=Theme
2	scare away	to-infinitive		the boats				away property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus boat=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, its jaw is naturally white on the right and dark on the left

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 white	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 white	punct
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 jaw	nmod:poss
4	jaw	jaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 white	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 white	cop
6	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	7 white	advmod
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 right	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 right	det
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 white	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dark	cc
12	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 white	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 left	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 left	det
15	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 white	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	its jaw			the right		on the left; naturally, white property	tree rules
2	be		its jaw not said here						tree rules

Option 3

Yes, it has a sunburnt side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 side	det
6	sunburnt	sunburnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 side	amod
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	it	a sunburnt side					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Only old fin whales go two colours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 whales	advmod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 whales	amod
3	fin	fin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 whales	compound
4	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 colours	nummod
7	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	old fin whales	two colours					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location colour=Theme

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