Test 11 · The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world

«whale that lives 200 years? pull the other one» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: whale · What happens: live, pull, be · To what, where: other one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 of lesson 6 «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» 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	_	2 whale	punct
2	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pull	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lives	nsubj
4	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 whale	acl:relcl
5	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lives	obl:unmarked
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 pull	punct
8	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pull	obj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 pull	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pull	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 pull	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	live in a quote	present	whale		year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull in a quote	infinitive	whale	the other one			tree rules
3	is	present				right property	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

No whale lives longer than 20 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 whale	det
2	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lives	nsubj
3	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 lives	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 years	case
6	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 years	nummod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	no whale				year	long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Only whales in zoos and aquariums live that long, with vets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 whales	advmod
2	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 zoos	case
4	zoos	zoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 whales	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 aquariums	cc
6	aquariums	aquarium	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 zoos	conj
7	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 long	mark
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 live	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 vets	punct
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 vets	case
12	vets	vet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	whales in zoos and aquariums					with vets; long property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with vet=Location

Option 3

All whales live exactly 100 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 whales	det
2	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 100	advmod
5	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	all whales				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Some bowhead whales are thought to have lived over 200 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 whales	det
2	bowhead	bowhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whales	compound
3	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thought	nsubj:pass
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	aux:pass
5	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 lived	mark
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 lived	aux
8	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 thought	xcomp
9	over	over	ADV	_	10 200	advmod
10	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thought	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · passive		some bowhead whales			year		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	live	to-infinitive · perfect							vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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