Test 7 · ★ · The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest…

What would happen if a lanternfish turned off all its belly lights?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lanternfish · What happens: happen, turn off, light · To what, where: lanternfish, belly lights

This is test 7 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 lanternfish	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lanternfish	det
6	lanternfish	lanternfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lanternfish	acl
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 turned	compound:prt
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 lights	det:predet
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 lights	nmod:poss
11	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lights	compound
12	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turned	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would		a lanternfish	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn off	participle	a lanternfish not said here	lanternfish's belly lights	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	light		lanternfish		nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, the lights are only for fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fun	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lights	det
4	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fun	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fun	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 fun	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 fun	case
8	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the lights					for fun	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A hunter below might see its dark shape against the faint light above

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hunter	det
2	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
3	below	below	ADV	_	2 hunter	advmod
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shape	nmod:poss
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shape	amod
8	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
9	against	against	ADP	_	12 light	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 light	det
11	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 light	amod
12	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obl
13	above	above	ADV	_	5 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	might	a hunter	hunter's dark shape				against the faint light; above property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shape=Stimulus

Option 3

It would glow even more

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	3 glow	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 glow	aux
3	glow	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 glow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	would	It						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It would sink to the bottom

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	3 sink	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sink	aux
3	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 bottom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bottom	det
6	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sink	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	would	It					to the bottom	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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