Test 6 · ★★ · Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger…
In the cartoon SpongeBob, Bikini Bottom is full of sunlight and seaweed. Which is true of the deepest vents?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bikini Bottom · What happens: be · To what, where: cartoon SpongeBob
This is test 6 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: In the cartoon SpongeBob, Bikini Bottom is full of sunlight and seaweed.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 SpongeBob | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 SpongeBob | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 SpongeBob | compound |
| 4 | SpongeBob | SpongeBob | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 full | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 SpongeBob | punct |
| 6 | Bikini | Bikini | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Bottom | compound |
| 7 | Bottom | Bottom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 full | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 full | cop |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sunlight | case |
| 11 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 full | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 seaweed | cc |
| 13 | seaweed | seaweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sunlight | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 full | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Bikini Bottom | the cartoon SpongeBob | of sunlight and seaweed; full 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.
Sentence 2: Which is true of the deepest vents?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 vents | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 vents | det |
| 6 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 vents | amod |
| 7 | vents | vent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 true | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | of the deepest vents; true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
They are lit by the Sun like a beach
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lit | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lit | aux:pass |
| 3 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Sun | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sun | det |
| 6 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lit | obl:agent |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 beach | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 beach | det |
| 9 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lit | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lit | present · passive | the Sun | They | like a beach | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No sunlight reaches them, and life there runs on chemicals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sunlight | det |
| 2 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reaches | nsubj |
| 3 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reaches | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 runs | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 runs | cc |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 runs | nsubj |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 life | advmod |
| 9 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reaches | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 chemicals | case |
| 11 | chemicals | chemical | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 runs | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | no sunlight | them = they | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | present | life | chemicals | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chemical=Trajectory |
Option 3
They are full of grass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 full | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | cop |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 grass | case |
| 5 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 full | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | They | of grass; full property | tree rules |
Option 4
They are just as warm and bright as a rock pool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 warm | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 warm | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 warm | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 warm | advmod |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bright | cc |
| 7 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warm | conj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 pool | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pool | det |
| 10 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pool | compound |
| 11 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 warm | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | They | as a rock pool; warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | They not said here | 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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