Test 8 · ★★ · Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughin…

«big brain = clever, end of. whale beats everyone» What is the fair view?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: big brain · What happens: beat, be · To what, where: everyone, fair view · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 388 «Surprising brains: tool-using fish, counting bees, laughing rats and clever pigs» 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 brain	punct
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brain	amod
3	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beats	nsubj
4	=	=	SYM	_	5 clever	punct
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brain	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 end	punct
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brain	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 whale	case
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 whale	punct
10	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	nmod
11	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 beats	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 beats	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 view	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 view	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 view	det
17	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 view	amod
18	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 beats	parataxis
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 beats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat in a quote	present	big brain and end of whale	everyone					tree rules
2	is a	present		the fair view					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

Small brains do nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 brains	amod
2	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 do	nsubj
3	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Small brains	nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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

How well brain cells are packed and connected matters, not just size

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 well	advmod
2	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 packed	advmod
3	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cells	compound
4	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 packed	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 packed	aux:pass
6	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 matters	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 connected	cc
8	connected	connect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 packed	conj
9	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 size	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 size	advmod
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 size	advmod
13	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 matters	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack	present · passive		brain cells				well property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination
2	connect	participle							vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Size is the only thing that counts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 counts	nsubj
7	counts	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Size	the only thing					tree rules
2	count	present	the only thing						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

The biggest brain is always the cleverest, so the whale really does win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brain	det
2	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 brain	amod
3	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cleverest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cleverest	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 cleverest	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cleverest	det
7	cleverest	clever	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 win	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	14 win	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 whale	det
11	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 win	nsubj
12	really	really	ADV	_	14 win	advmod
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 win	aux
14	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cleverest	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the biggest brain					always, clever property	tree rules
2	win	present · do-support	the whale						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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