--- title: A fan company copies bumps from a whale's flipper. Which whale did t… — Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blu… · tree and pragmatics description: A fan company copies bumps from a whale's flipper. Which whale did they copy? 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Which whale did they copy? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fan company, whale · **What happens:** copy · **To what, where:** bumps, flipper This is test 8 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A fan company copies bumps from a whale's flipper. ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t8:1 # text = A fan company copies bumps from a whale's flipper. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 fan fan NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 company company NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 copies copy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 bumps bump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 flipper flipper NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **copy** | present | a fan company | bumps | | a whale's flipper | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bump=Theme | 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:* Which whale did they copy? ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t8:2 # text = Which whale did they copy? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 copy copy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **copy** | past · do-support | which whale | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} The humpback ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t8:o1:1 # text = The humpback 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 humpback humpback NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} The blue whale ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t8:o2:1 # text = The blue whale 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The grey whale ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t8:o3:1 # text = The grey whale 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The minke whale ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke:t8:o4:1 # text = The minke whale 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 minke minke NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 whale whale NOUN NN Number=Sing 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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