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The second one means "the enemy successfully got several of our aircrafts". Specifically, definition 3a or 3b for the verb form here: https://www.merriam-webst

The second one means "the enemy successfully got several of our aircrafts". Specifically, definition 3a or 3b for the verb form here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/land https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/land So potentially the enemy captured the aircraft (3a) or destroyed them (3b).

LaMarseillaise 7y ago
If taking the "captured" interpretation, I think it could be reasonably inferred that they successfully landed the aircraft at an airfield afterwards (same meaning). This was my initial read of it and it does not seem strange to me on reflection. I would like also to point out that even if we do interpret the second as meaning "destroyed", the first could then be interpreted as a combat aviator shooting down an opposing aircraft, bringing us back to the same meaning. Or perhaps both of my interpretations are correct and the meanings are different... What this tells me is that the benchmark is not very useful.
- TylerE 7y ago
  Landed in the sense of a fisherman landing a marlin.
  - nmeofthestate 7y ago
    So at the end of the process they were in possession of the enemy aircraft. Maybe they jumped across in mid-air and wrestled it off the other pilot.
- parksy 7y ago
  The benchmark is useful primarily because it puts humans and computers on a level playing field. Human readers will misinterpret written language, and human writers will poorly represent concepts. The propensity to make mistakes in comprehension is unavoidable, humans only approach 90% accuracy, and computers are getting close to the same level of accuracy on the same base materials as humans. The other way of testing would be to devise a test where there is only a single interpretation, where the context is clear, and there is no ambiguity in meaning. In that case a competent human and computer algorithm could be expected to answer all questions perfectly. The purpose of this benchmark on the other hand is to test comprehension when meaning is not explicit and context clues are implied, something humans have had the advantage at over computers until quite recently. The computer won't be 100% accurate, but that's not the purpose of this test.
steve19 7y ago
My immediate thought was captured ie. "Iran successfully landed our UAV by transmitting false GPS data". This language is used on the Wikipedia page about that incident. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident
topspin 7y ago
Would a native English speaker use the word "landed" in this way? In the context of aircraft? "Landed" is badly ambiguous here and several distinct meanings are plausible. Captured is the most natural word given your interpretation. Honestly that sentence -- the use of landed and that awful plural -- approaches engrish. Is that deliberate or is the use of English here just badly flawed? I can't see any other possibilities.
- Accacin 7y ago
  I don't know. I guess I understood the sentence with 'landed' the same as I would have if someone told me that they'd 'landed a big job'. I wouldn't really say this myself though, although I hear people say 'landed a big catch' when they're talking about fishing.
  - treis 7y ago
    Landed, with this meaning, is used in the context of successfully enticing someone to give you something. Like hooking a fish with bait.
    - mod 7y ago
      FWIW, Landing a fish is not the same as hooking it. Landing a fish literally means pulling it to land (or boat). So landing=catching=scoring. Depending on the type of fishing, you can still be an underdog to land the fish after hooking it.
- wisty 7y ago
  Possibly, you could say the planes were landed, as in forced to stay on the ground (because of damage, fear of enemy fire, or damage to the runway). But grounded would be better.
- sgt101 7y ago
  I think it's archaic; in the past a fishing reference would have been more common and widely understood.
Someone 7y ago
Aircraft typically get captured on the ground, or get forced to land by threat of being shot down. “Landed”, for me, would require the enemy to actively land the plane, just as “landing a fish” requires both the fisherman’s action and moving the fish from water to land. I also wouldn’t use “landed” for destroying an enemy plane (neither by shooting it down nor by destroying it on the ground) That, realistically, leaves hacking the plane’s electronics and then directing it to one’s own airfield.
- andrewla 7y ago
  Yes -- if the sentence had been "grounded the aircraft", then the meaning is obvious. But even though "land" is a synonym for "ground" I don't think there's an equivalence of meaning here. I'm struggling to find a sense in which "landing and enemy aircraft" is a meaningful concept short of jumping out of one plane to land on another one, removing the pilot, and landing the plane, which is a bit much for the single word "landed" to carry.

LaMarseillaise 7y ago

If taking the "captured" interpretation, I think it could be reasonably inferred that they successfully landed the aircraft at an airfield afterwards (same meaning). This was my initial read of it and it does not seem strange to me on reflection. I would like also to point out that even if we do interpret the second as meaning "destroyed", the first could then be interpreted as a combat aviator shooting down an opposing aircraft, bringing us back to the same meaning. Or perhaps both of my interpretations are correct and the meanings are different... What this tells me is that the benchmark is not very useful.

TylerE 7y ago
Landed in the sense of a fisherman landing a marlin.
- nmeofthestate 7y ago
  So at the end of the process they were in possession of the enemy aircraft. Maybe they jumped across in mid-air and wrestled it off the other pilot.
parksy 7y ago
The benchmark is useful primarily because it puts humans and computers on a level playing field. Human readers will misinterpret written language, and human writers will poorly represent concepts. The propensity to make mistakes in comprehension is unavoidable, humans only approach 90% accuracy, and computers are getting close to the same level of accuracy on the same base materials as humans. The other way of testing would be to devise a test where there is only a single interpretation, where the context is clear, and there is no ambiguity in meaning. In that case a competent human and computer algorithm could be expected to answer all questions perfectly. The purpose of this benchmark on the other hand is to test comprehension when meaning is not explicit and context clues are implied, something humans have had the advantage at over computers until quite recently. The computer won't be 100% accurate, but that's not the purpose of this test.

steve19 7y ago

My immediate thought was captured ie. "Iran successfully landed our UAV by transmitting false GPS data". This language is used on the Wikipedia page about that incident. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–U.S._RQ-170_incident

topspin 7y ago

Would a native English speaker use the word "landed" in this way? In the context of aircraft? "Landed" is badly ambiguous here and several distinct meanings are plausible. Captured is the most natural word given your interpretation. Honestly that sentence -- the use of landed and that awful plural -- approaches engrish. Is that deliberate or is the use of English here just badly flawed? I can't see any other possibilities.

Accacin 7y ago
I don't know. I guess I understood the sentence with 'landed' the same as I would have if someone told me that they'd 'landed a big job'. I wouldn't really say this myself though, although I hear people say 'landed a big catch' when they're talking about fishing.
- treis 7y ago
  Landed, with this meaning, is used in the context of successfully enticing someone to give you something. Like hooking a fish with bait.
  - mod 7y ago
    FWIW, Landing a fish is not the same as hooking it. Landing a fish literally means pulling it to land (or boat). So landing=catching=scoring. Depending on the type of fishing, you can still be an underdog to land the fish after hooking it.
wisty 7y ago
Possibly, you could say the planes were landed, as in forced to stay on the ground (because of damage, fear of enemy fire, or damage to the runway). But grounded would be better.
sgt101 7y ago
I think it's archaic; in the past a fishing reference would have been more common and widely understood.

Someone 7y ago

Aircraft typically get captured on the ground, or get forced to land by threat of being shot down. “Landed”, for me, would require the enemy to actively land the plane, just as “landing a fish” requires both the fisherman’s action and moving the fish from water to land. I also wouldn’t use “landed” for destroying an enemy plane (neither by shooting it down nor by destroying it on the ground) That, realistically, leaves hacking the plane’s electronics and then directing it to one’s own airfield.

andrewla 7y ago
Yes -- if the sentence had been "grounded the aircraft", then the meaning is obvious. But even though "land" is a synonym for "ground" I don't think there's an equivalence of meaning here. I'm struggling to find a sense in which "landing and enemy aircraft" is a meaningful concept short of jumping out of one plane to land on another one, removing the pilot, and landing the plane, which is a bit much for the single word "landed" to carry.