Test 2 · ★★ · Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger…

«vents r just underwater fire, nothing can live there» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nothing · What happens: live, be

This is test 2 · ★★ 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 r	punct
2	vents	vent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 r	nsubj
3	r	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	parataxis
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 underwater	advmod
5	underwater	underwater	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fire	amod
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 r	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 live	punct
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 live	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 live	aux
10	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 r	conj
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 live	advmod
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 r	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 right	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 right	cop
15	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live in a quote	can	nothing			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
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 · ← Mova's choice

Vents are frozen, not hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vents	vent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 frozen	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 frozen	aux:pass
3	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hot	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hot	advmod
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 frozen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present · passive		Vents					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

Option 2

Only plants live near them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 plants	advmod
2	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	plants					near them = they	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near they=Location

Option 3

Right, nothing lives near them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 lives	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	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	near	near	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	nothing					near them = they	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near they=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Vents are hot water, not fire, and they are crowded with life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vents	vent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 water	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 water	cop
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fire	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fire	advmod
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 water	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 crowded	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 crowded	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 crowded	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 crowded	cop
12	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 life	case
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crowded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Vents	hot water and fire					tree rules
2	is	present	Vents = vent					with life; crowded property	tree rules

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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