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Test 8 · ★★ · The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale…

Scientists drop a dead whale's body in deep water and come back years later. What will they most likely find?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Scientists · What happens: drop, come back, find · To what, where: body, deep water

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 176 «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» 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: Scientists drop a dead whale's body in deep water and come back years later.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drop	nsubj
2	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 whale	det
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 whale	amod
5	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 body	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 whale	case
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drop	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drop	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 come	cc
12	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 drop	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 later	obl:unmarked
15	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 come	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 drop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	present	Scientists	a dead whale's body		deep water			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme in water=Destination
2	come back	present	Scientists not said here					late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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.

Sentence 2: What will they most likely find?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 find	obj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 find	nsubj
4	most	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	6 find	advmod
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	must · future	Scientists = scientist					likely property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing left at all after one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Nothing	acl
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	fixed
4	all	all	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 left	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 day	nummod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle					day	all property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

A whale that came back to life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 whale	det
2	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 life	case
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	a whale			life			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location

Option 3

The same body untouched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 body	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 body	amod
3	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 untouched	nsubj
4	untouched	untouched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Animals still living off it, including worms on the bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 living	nsubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 living	advmod
3	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 living	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 worms	punct
7	including	including	ADP	_	8 worms	case
8	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 living	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 bones	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bones	det
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 worms	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live off	gerund	Animals	it			still	including worms on the bones	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=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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