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title: «jellyfish longer than a blue whale, u serious» What is right? — Record-breakers: the biggest and the s… · tree and pragmatics
description: «jellyfish longer than a blue whale, u serious» What is right? Test 10 · ★★ of lesson 186 «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★★ · Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest

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«jellyfish longer than a blue whale, u serious» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 186 «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest:t10:1
# text = «jellyfish longer than a blue whale, u serious» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
4	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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No jellyfish is ever longer than about one metre, even in the deep sea

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest:t10:o1:1
# text = No jellyfish is ever longer than about one metre, even in the deep sea
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
4	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
5	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	about	about	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	metre	metre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | no jellyfish |  |  |  |  | than one metre and the deep sea; long *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It was two jellyfish tied together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest:t10:o2:1
# text = It was two jellyfish tied together
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | It | two jellyfish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tie** | participle |  | two jellyfish *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A lion's mane found in 1870 was longer than a blue whale

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest:t10:o3:1
# text = A lion's mane found in 1870 was longer than a blue whale
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	mane	mane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1870	1870	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	longer	long	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | participle |  | a lion's mane *not said here* |  | 1870 |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | a lion's mane |  |  |  |  | than a blue whale; long *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Jellyfish have no tentacles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest:t10:o4:1
# text = Jellyfish have no tentacles
1	Jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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

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**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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