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Test 4 · ★★ · China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji…

In a cartoon a river dolphin looks for fish with big shining eyes. What is right about the baiji?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: river dolphin · What happens: look, shine, be · To what, where: cartoon

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 379 «China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon» 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: In a cartoon a river dolphin looks for fish with big shining eyes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looks	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dolphin	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dolphin	compound
6	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looks	nsubj
7	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 fish	case
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looks	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 eyes	case
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eyes	amod
12	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 eyes	amod
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 looks	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	a river dolphin			a cartoon		for fish; with big shining eyes	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in cartoon=Location for fish=Theme
2	shine	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «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.

Sentence 2: What is right about the baiji?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 baiji	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 baiji	det
6	baiji	baiji	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about the baiji; right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

It hunted only in clear water

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 hunted	nsubj
2	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 hunted	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past	It			clear water			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It had huge eyes that glowed in the dark muddy water

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eyes	amod
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 glowed	nsubj
6	glowed	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eyes	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 dark	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dark	det
9	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glowed	obl
10	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 water	amod
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	It	huge eyes					tree rules
2	glow	past	huge eyes			the dark			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It was almost blind and found fish by clicks and echoes

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	4 blind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blind	cop
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 blind	advmod
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 found	cc
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blind	conj
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 found	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 clicks	case
9	clicks	click	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 found	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 echoes	cc
11	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 clicks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					almost, blind property	tree rules
2	find	past		fish				by clicks and echoes	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic

Option 4

It found fish by smell alone

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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 smell	case
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 found	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	It	fish				by smell; alone property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic

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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