Test 10 · The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world

«sun at 11 at night?? norway's broken lol» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: break, be · To what, where: best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 6 «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 sun	punct
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 norway	compound
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 11	case
4	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 sun	nmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 11	nmod
7	??	??	PUNCT	_	2 sun	punct
8	norway	norway	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lol	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 norway	case
10	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 lol	amod
11	lol	lol	NOUN	_	17 answer	nsubj
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	11 lol	punct
13	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 answer	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 answer	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 answer	det
16	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 answer	amod
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break in a quote	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	be speech: assert	present		the best answer					tree rules

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 northern lights are so bright that they make it look like the sun is still up

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lights	det
2	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lights	amod
3	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bright	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bright	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 bright	advmod
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 make	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	nsubj
9	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bright	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	xcomp
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 sun	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sun	det
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 look	obl
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 up	cop
16	still	still	ADV	_	17 up	advmod
17	up	up	ADV	_	6 bright	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the northern lights			bright property	tree rules
2	make	present	lights = light	it			tree rules
3	look	infinitive				like the sun	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	present	the northern lights not said here		still	up property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Earth's tilt keeps the far north in sunlight all day in midsummer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Earth	det
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tilt	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Earth	case
4	tilt	tilt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	nsubj
5	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 north	det
7	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 north	amod
8	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 sunlight	case
10	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	obl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	obl:unmarked
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 midsummer	case
14	midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the Earth's tilt	the far north		sunlight	day	in midsummer	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent north=Theme in sunlight=Location
2	tilt		the Earth						nom tilt «event intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

The sun stops moving in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stops	nsubj
3	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stops	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	the sun						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	move	gerund	the sun not said here				summer		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Norway is closer to the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Norway	Norway	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 closer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 closer	cop
3	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 closer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Norway					to the sun; close property	tree rules

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