Test 6 · ★ · The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark

What would happen to Everest if you dropped it into the Challenger Deep?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, drop · To what, where: Everest, it, Challenger Deep

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Everest	case
5	Everest	Everest	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 dropped	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 dropped	nsubj
8	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dropped	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 Deep	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Deep	det
12	Challenger	Challenger	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Deep	compound
13	Deep	Deep	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dropped	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would			Everest				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drop a condition, not said to happen	past	you	it		the Challenger Deep			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into deep=Destination

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

It would float back up

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	3 float	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	5 up	advmod
5	up	up	ADV	_	3 float	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	would	It						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Its peak would stick out of the sea by about 2 km

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 peak	nmod:poss
2	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stick	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stick	aux
4	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 sea	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stick	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 km	case
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 2	advmod
11	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 km	nummod
12	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick out	would	Its peak	the sea				by 2 km	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sea=Theme by km=Destination

Option 3

It would fill the trench right up to the top and spill over

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	3 fill	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fill	aux
3	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trench	det
5	trench	trench	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fill	obj
6	right	right	ADV	_	3 fill	advmod
7	up	up	ADP	_	10 top	case
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 top	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 top	det
10	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fill	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 spill	cc
12	spill	spill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fill	conj
13	over	over	ADV	_	12 spill	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	would	It	the trench				up the top; right property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent trench=Patient
2	spill over	infinitive						over property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its peak would still be about 2 km under water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 peak	nmod:poss
2	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 km	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 km	aux
4	still	still	ADV	_	8 km	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 km	cop
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 2	advmod
7	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 km	nummod
8	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	under	under	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 km	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	Its peak	2 km		water	still		tree rules

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