Test 11 · ★ · The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark

«sea's just water and fish, who cares about plankton» What is the clever answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: water · What happens: care, be · To what, where: clever answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	_	5 water	punct
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 sea	case
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 water	advmod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fish	cc
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cares	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 cares	nsubj
10	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 water	conj
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 plankton	case
12	plankton	plankton	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 answer	obl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 plankton	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 answer	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 answer	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 answer	det
17	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 answer	amod
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cares	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 water	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	care in a quote	present	sea's water and fish						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	be speech: assert	present		the clever answer				about plankton	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

Plankton are just dirt in the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plankton	plankton	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dirt	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dirt	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 dirt	advmod
4	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dirt	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Plankton	dirt		the water			tree rules

Option 2

Plankton make the sea salty, which is why we cannot drink seawater

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plankton	plankton	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 salty	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 salty	compound
5	salty	salty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 why	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 why	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 why	cop
9	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 salty	acl:relcl
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 drink	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 drink	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 drink	advmod
13	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 why	advcl:relcl
14	seawater	seawater	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Plankton	the sea salty		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset salty=Product
2	is	present	the sea salty		why property	tree rules
3	not drink	can	we	seawater		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seawater=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Plankton feed the whole ocean and make about half our oxygen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plankton	Plankton	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 feed	nsubj
2	feed	fee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ocean	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ocean	amod
5	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 make	cc
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 feed	conj
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 half	advmod
9	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	11 oxygen	det:predet
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 oxygen	nmod:poss
11	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fee	past	Plankton	the whole ocean					tree rules
2	make	infinitive	Plankton not said here	our oxygen					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oxygen=Product

Option 4

Plankton only feed whales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plankton	Plankton	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 feed	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 feed	advmod
3	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	Plankton		whales				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Recipient

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