Test 10 · ★ · Tsunamis

Why is it hard to spot a tsunami from a ship in the deep ocean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, spot · To what, where: tsunami, ship

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 45 «Tsunamis» of the geography 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hard	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hard	expl
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 spot	mark
6	spot	spot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hard	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tsunami	det
8	tsunami	tsunami	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spot	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 ship	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ship	det
11	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spot	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 ocean	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ocean	det
14	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ocean	amod
15	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ship	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						hard property	tree rules
2	spot	to-infinitive		a tsunami		a ship in the deep ocean			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tsunami=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

It only comes out at night

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 comes	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 comes	advmod
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 comes	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	It				night		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It travels deep under the sea floor, out of sight

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 travels	nsubj
2	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	deep	deep	ADV	_	2 travels	advmod
4	under	under	ADP	_	7 floor	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 floor	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 floor	compound
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travels	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sight	punct
9	out	out	ADP	_	11 sight	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 sight	case
11	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travels	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	present	It			the sea floor		out sight; deep property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under floor=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is low and very long, so it looks like nothing much

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 low	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 low	cop
3	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 long	cc
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 low	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 looks	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 looks	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looks	nsubj
10	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 low	conj
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 nothing	case
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 looks	obl
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 looks	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	low property	tree rules
2	be				tree rules
3	look	present	it	like nothing; much property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

It is hidden by thick fog every time it crosses the ocean

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 hidden	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hidden	aux:pass
3	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 fog	case
5	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fog	amod
6	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hidden	obl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hidden	obl:unmarked
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 crosses	nsubj
10	crosses	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 time	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ocean	det
12	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crosses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present · passive	thick fog	It			time		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	cross	present	fog	the ocean					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Patient

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