Test 7 · ★★ · Vents and trenches: tubeworms, iron snails, the Challenger…

«mate says an elephant on ur thumb is nothing, the deep is easy» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, elephant, deep · What happens: say, be · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★★ 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 says	punct
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 elephant	det
5	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nothing	nsubj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 thumb	case
7	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 thumb	nmod:poss
8	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 elephant	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 nothing	cop
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 says	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 easy	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 deep	det
13	deep	deep	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 easy	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 easy	cop
15	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 nothing	parataxis
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	15 easy	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 right	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 right	cop
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 easy	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	a elephant on ur's thumb	nothing		tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	the deep		easy property	tree rules
4	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

Only a mouse on your thumb, which you could hardly feel down there at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 mouse	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feel	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 thumb	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 thumb	nmod:poss
6	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mouse	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 feel	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 feel	obj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 feel	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 feel	aux
11	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	12 feel	advmod
12	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 feel	compound:prt
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 feel	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 feel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel down	could	a mouse on your thumb			all; there		hardly property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Theme at all=Location

Option 2

The deep presses less than air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 deep	det
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 presses	nsubj
3	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 presses	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 air	case
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 presses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	present	the deep					than air; less property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The deep has no pressure at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 deep	det
2	deep	deep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 pressure	det
5	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 pressure	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the deep	no pressure		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pressure=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The deepest trench presses about as hard as an elephant on your thumb, which is huge

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trench	det
2	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 trench	amod
3	trench	trench	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 presses	nsubj
4	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 presses	ccomp
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 elephant	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 elephant	det
10	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hard	obl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 thumb	case
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 thumb	nmod:poss
13	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 presses	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 huge	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 huge	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 huge	cop
17	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thumb	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	present	the deepest trench					on your thumb	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on thumb=Theme
2	is	present	your thumb					huge 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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