Test 11 · ★★★ · Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish
A sperm whale washes ashore with round scars on its skin. What is a likely cause?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sperm whale · What happens: wash, be · To what, where: likely cause
This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 39 «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» 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 sperm whale washes ashore with round scars on its skin.
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 | sperm | sperm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whale | compound |
| 3 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 washes | nsubj |
| 4 | washes | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 4 washes | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 scars | case |
| 7 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 scars | amod |
| 8 | scars | scar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 washes | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 skin | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 skin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 scars | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 washes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | present | a sperm whale | with round scars on whale's skin; ashore property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with scar=Instrument |
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 a likely cause?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 cause | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cause | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cause | det |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cause | amod |
| 5 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 cause | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a likely cause | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Suckers of a giant squid it hunted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Suckers | sucker | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 squid | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 squid | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 squid | amod |
| 5 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Suckers | nmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hunted | nsubj |
| 7 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 squid | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past | squid | a giant squid not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squid=Theme |
Option 2
Barnacles from a ship
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Barnacles | barnacle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 ship | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ship | det |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Barnacles | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Bites from a crowd of small sharks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bites | bite | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 crowd | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 crowd | det |
| 4 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bites | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sharks | case |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sharks | amod |
| 7 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crowd | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Sunburn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sunburn | sunburn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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