Test 9 · ★★ · The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark a…

«the arctic's dead in winter, nothing moves in the dark» What did scientists find?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nothing, scientists · What happens: move, find · To what, where: dark

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 169 «The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 arctic	det
3	arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dead	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 arctic	case
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 winter	case
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 moves	punct
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 moves	nsubj
10	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	parataxis
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 dark	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dark	det
13	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 moves	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 moves	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 find	obj
16	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 find	aux
17	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 find	nsubj
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 moves	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move in a quote	present	nothing			the dark			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in dark=Trajectory
2	find	past · do-support	scientists						vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The sea turns to rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 rock	case
5	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the sea			rock			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to rock=Trajectory

Option 2

Everything freezes solid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 freezes	nsubj
2	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 freezes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present	Everything					solid property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Only polar bears are awake, and every sea animal sleeps until spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 bears	advmod
2	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bears	amod
3	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 awake	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 awake	cop
5	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sleeps	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sleeps	cc
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 animal	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 animal	compound
10	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sleeps	nsubj
11	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 awake	conj
12	until	until	ADP	_	13 spring	case
13	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sleeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	polar bears					awake property	tree rules
2	sleep	present	every sea animal				spring		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tiny sea animals still move up and down in the dark water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 animals	compound
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 move	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 move	advmod
5	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 move	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 down	cc
8	down	down	ADV	_	6 up	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 water	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
11	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 water	amod
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move up	present	Tiny sea animals			the dark water	still		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory

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