--- title: Count it: a grey whale swims 18,000 kilometres a year for 10 years.… — Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blu… · tree and pragmatics description: Count it: a grey whale swims 18,000 kilometres a year for 10 years. How far is that? Test 11 of lesson 312 «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of ea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blu…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke/) / t11 # Test 11 · Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, gr… Count it: a grey whale swims 18,000 kilometres a year for 10 years. How far is that? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, grey whale, that · **What happens:** count, swim, be · **To what, where:** it, 18,000 kilometres This is test 11 of lesson 312 «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke» 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/312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Count it: a grey whale swims 18,000 kilometres a year for 10 years. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t11:1 # text = Count it: a grey whale swims 18,000 kilometres a year for 10 years. 1 Count count VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 swims swim VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 8 18,000 18,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 10 10 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | it | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **swim** | present | a grey whale | 18,000 kilometres | | | year | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kilometre=Trajectory | 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. *Sentence 2:* How far is that? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t11:2 # text = How far is that? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 cop _ _ 4 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | that | | | | | far *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} 1,800 kilometres ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t11:o1:1 # text = 1,800 kilometres 1 1,800 1,800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} 180,000 kilometres ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t11:o2:1 # text = 180,000 kilometres 1 180,000 180,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} 18,000 kilometres ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t11:o3:1 # text = 18,000 kilometres 1 18,000 18,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} 28,000 kilometres ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t11:o4:1 # text = 28,000 kilometres 1 28,000 28,000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` 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. 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