Test 8 · Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, gr…
A fan company copies bumps from a whale's flipper. Which whale did they copy?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fan company, whale · What happens: copy · To what, where: bumps, flipper
This is test 8 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 fan company copies bumps from a whale's flipper.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 company | det |
| 2 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 company | compound |
| 3 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 copies | nsubj |
| 4 | copies | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bumps | bump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 copies | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 flipper | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 whale | det |
| 8 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flipper | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 whale | case |
| 10 | flipper | flipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 copies | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 copies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | present | a fan company | bumps | a whale's flipper | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bump=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.
Sentence 2: Which whale did they copy?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 whale | det |
| 2 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 copy | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 copy | aux |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 copy | nsubj |
| 5 | copy | copy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 copy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | copy | past · do-support | which whale | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
The humpback
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 humpback | det |
| 2 | humpback | humpback | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The blue whale
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whale | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | 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.
Option 3
The grey whale
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whale | det |
| 2 | grey | grey | 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.
Option 4
The minke whale
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whale | det |
| 2 | minke | minke | 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.
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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