Test 1 · ★ · The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest…

«sonar says the sea floor came up 300 metres at night wtf» What is really happening?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sonar, sea floor · What happens: say, come up, happen · To what, where: 300 metres, night wtf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 175 «The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest daily journey 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
2	sonar	sonar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 floor	compound
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
8	up	up	ADV	_	9 300	advmod
9	300	300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 metres	nummod
10	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	obl:unmarked
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 wtf	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wtf	compound
13	wtf	wtf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 wtf	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 happening	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 happening	aux
17	really	really	ADV	_	18 happening	advmod
18	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 came	advcl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	sonar			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come up in a quote	past	the sea floor	300 metres	night wtf	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at wtf=Location
3	happen	present · progressive				vn occur-48.3-1 «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.

The options

Option 1

The sonar is always broken at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sonar	det
2	sonar	sonar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broken	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 broken	aux:pass
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 broken	advmod
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 broken	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present · passive		the sonar			night	always property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

The sea is getting shallower forever

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	4 getting	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 getting	aux
4	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	shallower	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 getting	xcomp
6	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 getting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · progressive	the sea					forever, shallow property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Huge crowds of animals are swimming up to feed in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 crowds	amod
2	crowds	crowd	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swimming	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 animals	case
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crowds	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 swimming	aux
6	swimming	swim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 swimming	compound:prt
8	to	to	PART	_	9 feed	mark
9	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 swimming	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 dark	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dark	det
12	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim up	present · progressive	Huge crowds of animals						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feed	to-infinitive	Huge crowds of animals not said here			the dark			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in dark=Location

Option 4

The sea floor really moves up every night and back down by day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 floor	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floor	compound
3	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moves	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 moves	advmod
5	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 moves	compound:prt
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moves	obl:unmarked
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 down	cc
10	back	back	ADV	_	11 down	advmod
11	down	down	ADV	_	8 night	conj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 day	case
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move up	present	the sea floor				day; night		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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