Test 11 · ★★ · Classifying unusual animals

is a whale a fish

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: whale

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Classifying unusual animals» of the world 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 whale	cop
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 whale	det
3	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fish	det
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 whale	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a whale				a fish nmod:unmarked	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

Yes, it lives in water so it's a fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lives	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lives	nsubj
4	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lives	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 fish	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fish	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fish	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fish	det
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	it			water			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location
2	is a	present	water	a fish					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, it has gills like a fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 fish	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fish	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gills	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	it	gills				like a fish	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gill=Patient

Option 3

No, it's a reptile of the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 reptile	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reptile	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reptile	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reptile	det
6	reptile	reptile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reptile	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a reptile				of the sea	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, it's a mammal that breathes air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 mammal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mammal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mammal	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mammal	det
6	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 breathes	nsubj
8	breathes	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mammal	acl:relcl
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 breathes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a mammal					tree rules
2	breathe	present	a mammal	air					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme

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