Test 10 · ★ · The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark

«why's the sea blue down there, is it the sky» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: sea blue, blue · What happens: be · To what, where: sky, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 8 «The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark» 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	_	8 there	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 there	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 there	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 blue	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blue	compound
6	blue	blue	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 there	nsubj
7	down	down	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sky	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sky	cop
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sky	nsubj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sky	det
13	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 there	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 sky	punct
15	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 answer	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 answer	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 answer	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 answer	amod
19	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 there	parataxis
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 there	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the sea blue		down, there property	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	blue	the sky		tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present		the best answer		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 · ✓ the right answer

Water soaks up red light first, so blue is what is left deeper down

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soaks	nsubj
2	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 soaks	compound:prt
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 light	amod
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soaks	obj
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 soaks	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 blue	advmod
9	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 what	amod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 what	cop
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 soaks	conj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 left	aux:pass
13	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 what	acl:relcl
14	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 left	advmod
15	down	down	ADV	_	13 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	soak up	present	Water	red light	first property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent light=Source
2	is a	present	Water not said here			tree rules
3	leave down	present · passive			deep, down property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»

Option 2

Salt makes the water blue, and the deeper you go the more salt there is

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 go	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 deeper	det
9	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 go	advcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
11	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 salt	det
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 salt	advmod
14	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obj
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 is	expl
16	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 salt	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present	Salt	the water		blue property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Product
2	go	present	you	the salt			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location salt=Theme
3	be	present	the salt not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It reflects the sky even 20 metres down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reflects	nsubj
2	reflects	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sky	det
4	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reflects	obj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 20	advmod
6	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 metres	nummod
7	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reflects	obj
8	down	down	ADV	_	2 reflects	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reflect	present	It	the sky				down property	tree rules

Option 4

Fish paint the water blue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 paint	nsubj
2	paint	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paint	obj
5	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 paint	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	present	Fish	the water				blue property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Destination

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