Test 10 · ★★ · Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger…

«we found plastic at the bottom of the deepest trench? no way» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: we · What happens: find, be · To what, where: plastic, bottom · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ 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. 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	_	3 found	punct
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 bottom	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bottom	det
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 trench	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trench	det
10	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 trench	amod
11	trench	trench	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bottom	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 way	punct
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	ccomp
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 way	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 right	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 right	cop
18	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 found	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find in a quote	past	we	plastic		the bottom of the deepest trench			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent plastic=Theme at bottom=Asset
2	is	present						right property	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

Only in shallow seas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 seas	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 seas	case
3	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seas	amod
4	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yes, scientists found plastic inside amphipods there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 amphipods	case
7	amphipods	amphipod	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 found	obl
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 found	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	scientists	plastic		amphipods; there			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plastic=Topic

Option 3

No, nothing lives there to check, so nobody knows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 nothing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 lives	nsubj
4	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lives	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 check	mark
7	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lives	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knows	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 knows	advmod
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 knows	nsubj
11	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lives	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	live	present	nothing	there	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	check	to-infinitive	nothing not said here		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	know	present	nobody		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

No, plastic always floats at the top of the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 floats	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 floats	punct
3	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 floats	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 floats	advmod
5	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 top	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 top	det
8	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 floats	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 top	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	plastic			the top of the sea		always property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Trajectory

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