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title: Scientists drop a dead whale's body in deep water and come back year… — The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scientists drop a dead whale's body in deep water and come back years later. What will they most likely find? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 176 «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the qu
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# Test 8 · ★★ · The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale…

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Scientists drop a dead whale's body in deep water and come back years later. What will they most likely find?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Scientists · **What happens:** drop, come back, find · **To what, where:** body, deep water

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 176 «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Scientists drop a dead whale's body in deep water and come back years later.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls:t8:1
# text = Scientists drop a dead whale's body in deep water and come back years later.
1	Scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | present | Scientists | a dead whale's body |  | deep water |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent body=Theme in water=Destination |
| 2 | **come back** | present | Scientists *not said here* |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What will they most likely find?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls:t8:2
# text = What will they most likely find?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	most	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | must · future | Scientists *= scientist* |  |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Nothing left at all after one day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls:t8:o1:1
# text = Nothing left at all after one day
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  | day | all *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A whale that came back to life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls:t8:o2:1
# text = A whale that came back to life
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | a whale |  |  | life |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial\_Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The same body untouched

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls:t8:o3:1
# text = The same body untouched
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	untouched	untouched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Animals still living off it, including worms on the bones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls:t8:o4:1
# text = Animals still living off it, including worms on the bones
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	including	including	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live off** | gerund | Animals | it |  |  | still | including worms on the bones | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location |

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