Test 9 · ★ · The twilight zone: barreleyes, lanternfish and the biggest…

«barreleye pics always looked rubbish, why» What is the reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: barreleye pics · What happens: look, be · To what, where: rubbish, reason

This is test 9 · ★ 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	_	5 looked	punct
2	barreleye	barreleye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pics	compound
3	pics	pic	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 looked	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 looked	advmod
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 reason	advcl
6	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 why	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 looked	advmod
9	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct
10	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 reason	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 reason	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 reason	det
13	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look in a quote	past	barreleye pics	rubbish				always property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rubbish=Attribute
2	is a	present		the reason					tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nets destroyed its see-through head until it was filmed alive in 2009

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 destroyed	nsubj
2	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
4	see	see	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 head	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 through	punct
6	through	thorough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 head	amod
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 destroyed	obj
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 filmed	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 filmed	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 filmed	aux:pass
11	filmed	film	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 destroyed	advcl
12	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 filmed	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 2009	case
14	2009	2009	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 filmed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	past	Nets	its see through head					vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument head=Patient
2	film	past · passive		head		2009		alive property	vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in 2009=Destination

Option 2

It has no head

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 head	det
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no head					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Option 3

It is too fast to film

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	4 fast	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fast	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 fast	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 film	mark
6	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fast	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					fast property	tree rules

Option 4

It only lives in fish tanks

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 lives	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 lives	advmod
3	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 tanks	case
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tanks	compound
6	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	It			fish tanks			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tank=Location

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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