Test 6 · ★★ · Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth

«blue whale's heart is the size of a football, tops» What is closer to the truth?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: heart, size · What happens: be · To what, where: size

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth» 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	_	8 size	punct
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 whale	amod
3	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heart	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 whale	case
5	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 size	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 size	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 size	det
8	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 closer	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 football	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 football	det
11	football	football	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 size	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tops	punct
13	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 football	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 size	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 closer	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 closer	cop
17	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 truth	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 truth	det
20	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 closer	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 closer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	blue whale's heart	the size				of a football and tops	tree rules
2	is	present	the size					to the truth; close 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

It is the size of a pea

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 size	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 size	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 size	det
4	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 pea	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pea	det
7	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 size	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the size				of a pea	tree rules

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

It is reported to weigh about 180 kg, the biggest heart of any animal

The tree, 14 words

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	3 reported	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reported	aux:pass
3	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 weigh	mark
5	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 reported	xcomp
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 180	advmod
7	180	180	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 kg	nummod
8	kg	kg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 weigh	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heart	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 heart	det
11	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 heart	amod
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kg	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 animal	case
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 animal	det
15	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heart	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	report	present · passive		It					vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	weigh	to-infinitive		180 kg					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kg=Value

Option 3

Whales have no heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 heart	det
4	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Whales	no heart					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient

Option 4

It is about the size of a human heart

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	5 size	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 size	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	5 size	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 size	det
5	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 heart	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 heart	det
8	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 heart	amod
9	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 size	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the size				of a human heart; about property	tree rules

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