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Test 4 · ★ · The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest…

A red shrimp is lit by a white lamp on a submarine and looks bright red. Why is it hard to see in its own home?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: white lamp · What happens: lit, look, be, see · To what, where: red shrimp, submarine, own home

This is test 4 · ★ 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 red shrimp is lit by a white lamp on a submarine and looks bright red.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shrimp	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shrimp	amod
3	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lit	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lit	aux:pass
5	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 lamp	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lamp	det
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lamp	amod
9	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lit	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 submarine	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 submarine	det
12	submarine	submarine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lit	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 looks	cc
14	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lit	conj
15	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 red	amod
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 looks	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	present · passive	a white lamp	a red shrimp		a submarine			tree rules
2	look	present	a white lamp not said here					red property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: Why is it hard to see in its own home?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hard	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hard	expl
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 home	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 home	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 home	amod
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						hard property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive				submarine's own home			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

The options

Option 1

It lives inside rocks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lives	nsubj
2	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	inside	inside	ADP	_	4 rocks	case
4	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	It			rocks			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside rock=Location

Option 2

Fish there cannot see at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	nsubj
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 see	expl
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Fish			all; there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

No red light reaches the deep, so it looks black there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 light	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 light	amod
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reaches	nsubj
4	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deep	det
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reaches	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 looks	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 looks	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looks	nsubj
10	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reaches	conj
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 looks	xcomp
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 looks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	present	no red light	the deep					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent deep=Theme
2	look	present	light			there		black property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

It turns blue when the lamp goes off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 turns	xcomp
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 goes	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lamp	det
6	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 goes	nsubj
7	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 turns	advcl
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 goes	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It					blue property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	go off	present	the lamp						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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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