Test 10 · ★ · The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest…
A diver goes down and down and the water turns from blue to dark. At about what depth is there no sunlight at all?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: diver, water, depth · What happens: go down, turn, be · To what, where: blue
This is test 10 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A diver goes down and down and the water turns from blue to dark.
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 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 goes | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 down | cc |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 down | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turns | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turns | nsubj |
| 10 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 goes | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 blue | case |
| 12 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 turns | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 dark | case |
| 14 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 turns | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | present | a diver | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | turn | present | the water | blue | to dark result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from blue=Initial_State to dark=Result |
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: At about what depth is there no sunlight at all?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 about | case |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 is | advmod |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 is | obj |
| 4 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 sunlight | det |
| 8 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 sunlight | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | depth | there | about property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
About a thousand metres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 thousand | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thousand | det |
| 3 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 metres | nummod |
| 4 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Only about fifty metres down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 fifty | advmod |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 fifty | advmod |
| 3 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 metres | nummod |
| 4 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 metres | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About ten thousand metres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 thousand | advmod |
| 2 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 thousand | compound |
| 3 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 metres | nummod |
| 4 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Only about ten metres or so
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 metres | advmod |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 ten | advmod |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 metres | nummod |
| 4 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 so | cc |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 metres | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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