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Test 8 · ★ · Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfi…

A diver sees the sea turn pink with tiny floating bundles one night after a full moon. What is happening?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: diver, sea · What happens: see, turn, float, happen · To what, where: sea

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 172 «Coral reef builders: polyps, bleaching, sand from parrotfish and giant clams» 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

Sentence 1: A diver sees the sea turn pink with tiny floating bundles one night after a full moon.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 diver	det
2	diver	diver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sees	nsubj
3	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sees	obj
6	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sees	xcomp
7	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 turn	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 bundles	case
9	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bundles	amod
10	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 bundles	amod
11	bundles	bundle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turn	obl
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 night	nummod
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turn	obl:unmarked
14	after	after	ADP	_	17 moon	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 moon	det
16	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 moon	amod
17	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turn	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	a diver	the sea					tree rules
2	turn	present	the sea not said here				after a full moon; night	with tiny floating bundles; pink property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	float	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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: What is happening?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happening	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happening	aux
3	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happening	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present · progressive							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The corals are spawning all at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 corals	det
2	corals	coral	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spawning	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 spawning	aux
4	spawning	spawn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	4 spawning	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 spawning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spawn	present · progressive	the corals					all property	vn calve-28.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The reef is bleaching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 reef	det
2	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bleaching	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bleaching	aux
4	bleaching	bleach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bleach	present · progressive	the reef						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Fish are laying their eggs all over the sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laying	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 laying	aux
3	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eggs	nmod:poss
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 laying	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	9 sand	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 sand	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sand	det
9	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present · progressive	Fish	Fish's eggs		the sand			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme over sand=Destination

Option 4

A ship spilled paint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ship	det
2	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	spilled	spill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ship	acl
4	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spilled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	participle	a ship not said here	paint					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location paint=Theme

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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