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# Test 11 · ★ · The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark

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«sea's just water and fish, who cares about plankton» What is the clever answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** water · **What happens:** care, be · **To what, where:** clever answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 11 · ★ 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/8-the-ocean/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:8-the-ocean:t11:1
# text = «sea's just water and fish, who cares about plankton» What is the clever answer?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	cares	care	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	plankton	plankton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **care** *in a quote* | present | sea's water and fish |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **be** *speech: assert* | present |  | the clever answer |  |  |  | about plankton | tree rules |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Plankton are just dirt in the water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:8-the-ocean:t11:o1:1
# text = Plankton are just dirt in the water
1	Plankton	plankton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Plankton | dirt |  | the water |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Plankton make the sea salty, which is why we cannot drink seawater

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:8-the-ocean:t11:o2:1
# text = Plankton make the sea salty, which is why we cannot drink seawater
1	Plankton	plankton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	salty	salty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl:relcl	_	_
14	seawater	seawater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Plankton | the sea salty |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset salty=Product |
| 2 | **is** | present | the sea salty |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **drink** | can | we | seawater |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seawater=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Plankton feed the whole ocean and make about half our oxygen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:8-the-ocean:t11:o3:1
# text = Plankton feed the whole ocean and make about half our oxygen
1	Plankton	Plankton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	feed	fee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fee** | past | Plankton | the whole ocean |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | Plankton *not said here* | our oxygen |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset oxygen=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Plankton only feed whales

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:8-the-ocean:t11:o4:1
# text = Plankton only feed whales
1	Plankton	Plankton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	feed	feed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	whales	whale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | present | Plankton |  | whales |  |  |  | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Recipient |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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