Exam question 3 · Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger…

State the depth of the Challenger Deep and the year in which it was first attained by human beings.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, human beings · What happens: state, attain · To what, where: depth

This is exam question 3 of lesson 177 «Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger Deep and life without sunlight» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 depth	det
3	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Deep	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Deep	det
6	Challenger	Challenger	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Deep	compound
7	Deep	Deep	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 depth	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 year	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Deep	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 attained	obl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 attained	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 attained	aux:pass
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 attained	advmod
16	attained	attain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 year	acl:relcl
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 beings	case
18	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 beings	amod
19	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 attained	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the depth of the Challenger Deep and the year					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent depth=Topic
2	attain	past · passive	human beings	depth			in the year	first property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nearly fifty kilometres; never attained

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 fifty	advmod
2	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 kilometres	nummod
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 attained	nsubj:pass
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 kilometres	punct
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 attained	advmod
6	attained	attain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not attain	participle · passive		fifty kilometres					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nearly eleven kilometres; first attained in 1960

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 eleven	advmod
2	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 kilometres	nummod
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 attained	nsubj:pass
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 attained	punct
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 attained	advmod
6	attained	attain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1960	case
8	1960	1960	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 attained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attain	participle · passive		eleven kilometres		1960		first property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

Nearly one kilometre; first attained in 1860

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 kilometre	nummod
3	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 attained	punct
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 attained	advmod
6	attained	attain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 kilometre	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 1860	case
8	1860	1860	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 attained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attain	participle		one kilometre not said here		1860		first property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nearly eleven kilometres; first attained in 2019

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 eleven	advmod
2	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 kilometres	nummod
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 attained	nsubj:pass
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	6 attained	punct
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 attained	advmod
6	attained	attain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 2019	case
8	2019	2019	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 attained	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attain	participle · passive		eleven kilometres		2019		first property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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