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title: «blue whale's heart is the size of a football, tops» What is closer… — Antarctica: penguins, seals and the co… · tree and pragmatics
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth

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«blue whale's heart is the size of a football, tops» What is closer to the truth?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** heart, size · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** size

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This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth» 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/7-antarctica/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t6:1
# text = «blue whale's heart is the size of a football, tops» What is closer to the truth?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | blue whale's heart | the size |  |  |  | of a football and tops | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the size |  |  |  |  | to the truth; close *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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is the size of a pea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t6:o1:1
# text = It is the size of a pea
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pea	pea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | the size |  |  |  | of a pea | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is reported to weigh about 180 kg, the biggest heart of any animal

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t6:o2:1
# text = It is reported to weigh about 180 kg, the biggest heart of any animal
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	weigh	weigh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	180	180	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	kg	kg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **weigh** | to-infinitive |  | 180 kg |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kg=Value |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Whales have no heart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t6:o3:1
# text = Whales have no heart
1	Whales	whale	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	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Whales | no heart |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It is about the size of a human heart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t6:o4:1
# text = It is about the size of a human heart
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | the size |  |  |  | of a human heart; about *property* | tree rules |

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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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