Test 11 · ★★★ · Water safety and the ocean

Why can't people swim down to where the deepest fish live?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: people, deepest fish · What happens: not swim down, live

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 13 «Water safety and the ocean» of the physics 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	5 swim	advmod
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 swim	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 swim	advmod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 swim	nsubj
5	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 swim	advmod
7	to	to	SCONJ	_	12 live	mark
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 live	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fish	det
10	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 fish	amod
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 live	nsubj
12	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 swim	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 swim	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not swim down	can	people					down property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	present	the deepest fish						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

The water presses far too hard down there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 presses	nsubj
3	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 presses	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 presses	advmod
7	down	down	ADV	_	3 presses	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 presses	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	present	the water			there		down, far, hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is far too dark down there to see where to swim

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	5 dark	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 dark	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 dark	advmod
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	7 there	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 dark	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dark	advcl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 swim	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 swim	mark
12	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 see	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	there	dark, far property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	swim	to-infinitive				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The water is too salty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 salty	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 salty	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 salty	advmod
5	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

The fish would chase them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chase	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 chase	aux
4	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chase	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	would	the fish	them = they					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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