Test 9 · The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life u…

Why would scientists be surprised to find sponges under nine hundred metres of ice?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: scientists · What happens: be, find · To what, where: sponges, hundred metres

This is test 9 of lesson 171 «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 surprised	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 surprised	aux
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 surprised	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 surprised	cop
5	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 find	mark
7	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 surprised	advcl
8	sponges	sponge	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 find	obj
9	under	under	ADP	_	12 metres	case
10	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 hundred	compound
11	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 metres	nummod
12	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 find	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 ice	case
14	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 metres	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 surprised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	scientists					surprised property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	scientists not said here	sponges		hundred metres of ice			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sponge=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

Ice is far too hot for sponges, they like boiling water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hot	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 hot	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 hot	advmod
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 sponges	case
7	sponges	sponge	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hot	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 like	nsubj
10	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	advcl
11	boiling	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 water	amod
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 like	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Ice		for sponges; far, hot property	tree rules
2	like	present	sponges = sponge	boiling water		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot water=Theme
3	boil	gerund				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They live far from open water and sunlight, where food is very scarce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 live	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 live	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sunlight	cc
8	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 water	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 scarce	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 scarce	advmod
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 scarce	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 scarce	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 scarce	advmod
14	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	They			open water and sunlight		far property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	food					scarce property	tree rules

Option 3

Sponges cannot live in water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sponges	sponge	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 live	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 live	advmod
4	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not live	can	Sponges			water			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location

Option 4

Sponges only live in hot, dry deserts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sponges	sponge	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 live	advmod
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 deserts	case
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deserts	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hot	punct
7	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deserts	amod
8	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Sponges			hot dry deserts			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Location

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