Test 7 · ★ · The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark

«nothing could live down the mariana trench, pressure'd squash it» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: nothing, pressure · What happens: live down, squash, be · To what, where: mariana trench, trench · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	_	4 live	punct
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 live	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 live	aux
4	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	8 trench	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trench	det
7	mariana	mariana	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trench	compound
8	trench	trench	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 live	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 squash	punct
10	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 squash	nsubj
11	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 squash	aux
12	squash	squash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 live	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 squash	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 squash	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 squash	parataxis
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 live	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	live down in a quote	could	nothing	the mariana trench		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme trench=Location
2	squash in a quote	would	pressure	trench		tree rules
3	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 giant squid live there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 squid	advmod
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 squid	amod
3	squid	squid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 live	nsubj
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	giant squid			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Some fish, shrimp-like animals and microbes still live there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 live	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 animals	punct
4	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 like	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 shrimp	punct
6	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fish	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 microbes	cc
9	microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 animals	conj
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 live	advmod
11	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	some fish like animals and microbes			there	still		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Only plants can live there, as animals would be squashed flat by the water

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 plants	advmod
2	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 live	aux
4	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 live	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 squashed	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 squashed	mark
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 squashed	nsubj:pass
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 squashed	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 squashed	aux:pass
11	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 live	conj
12	flat	flat	ADV	_	11 squashed	advmod
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 water	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 water	det
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 squashed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	can	plants			there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	squash	would · passive	the water	animals				flat property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 4

Nothing at all lives below 1 km

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 lives	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 lives	det
4	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	nmod
5	below	below	ADV	_	6 1	advmod
6	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 km	nummod
7	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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