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title: «whale that lives 200 years? pull the other one» What is right? — The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar be… · tree and pragmatics
description: «whale that lives 200 years? pull the other one» What is right? Test 11 of lesson 6 «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» 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 11 · The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world

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«whale that lives 200 years? pull the other one» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** whale · **What happens:** live, pull, be · **To what, where:** other one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 of lesson 6 «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» 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/6-the-arctic/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t11:1
# text = «whale that lives 200 years? pull the other one» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
8	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** *in a quote* | present | whale |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pull** *in a quote* | infinitive | whale | the other one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **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 whale lives longer than 20 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t11:o1:1
# text = No whale lives longer than 20 years
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | no whale |  |  |  | year | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only whales in zoos and aquariums live that long, with vets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t11:o2:1
# text = Only whales in zoos and aquariums live that long, with vets
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	zoos	zoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	aquariums	aquarium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	vets	vet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | whales in zoos and aquariums |  |  |  |  | with vets; long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with vet=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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All whales live exactly 100 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t11:o3:1
# text = All whales live exactly 100 years
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | all whales |  |  |  | year |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Some bowhead whales are thought to have lived over 200 years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t11:o4:1
# text = Some bowhead whales are thought to have lived over 200 years
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	bowhead	bowhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	xcomp	_	_
9	over	over	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | some bowhead whales |  |  | year |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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