Test 7 · ★★ · Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whi…
Is a porpoise a fish?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: porpoise
This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 402 «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar» 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 porpoise | cop |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 porpoise | det |
| 3 | porpoise | porpoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fish | det |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 porpoise | nmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 porpoise | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a porpoise | a fish nmod | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, a kind of whiting with a round nose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 kind | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kind | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 whiting | mark |
| 6 | whiting | white | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kind | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 nose | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 nose | det |
| 9 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 nose | amod |
| 10 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whiting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | white | gerund | a kind not said here | with a round nose | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, a mammal like a dolphin that breathes air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 mammal | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mammal | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mammal | det |
| 4 | mammal | mammal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 dolphin | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dolphin | det |
| 7 | dolphin | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mammal | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 breathes | nsubj |
| 9 | breathes | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dolphin | acl:relcl |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 breathes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | present | a dolphin | air | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
Option 3
Yes, a fish with no scales that lives in rivers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 fish | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fish | det |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 scales | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 scales | det |
| 7 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fish | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lives | nsubj |
| 9 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 scales | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 rivers | case |
| 11 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lives | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | no scales | rivers | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location |
Option 4
No, a kind of turtle without a shell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 kind | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 kind | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 turtle | case |
| 6 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kind | nmod |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 shell | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 shell | det |
| 9 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kind | nmod |
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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