Test 1 · ★★ · Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth

«christmas card's got polar bears and penguins being mates, aww» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: christmas card, penguins · What happens: get, be · To what, where: polar bears, mates

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth» 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	_	5 got	punct
2	christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 card	compound
3	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bears	amod
7	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mates	cc
9	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 mates	nsubj
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 mates	cop
11	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bears	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 aww	punct
13	aww	aww	INTJ	_	7 bears	discourse
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 aww	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	christmas card	polar bears and mates		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus
2	is a in a quote	gerund	penguins	mates		tree rules
3	is	present			right property	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

Polar bears eat penguins every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bears	amod
2	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
3	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Polar bears	penguins			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penguin=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They never meet: polar bears live in the north, penguins in the south

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 meet	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 meet	advmod
3	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 live	punct
5	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bears	amod
6	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 live	nsubj
7	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 meet	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 north	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 north	det
10	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 live	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 penguins	punct
12	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 north	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 south	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 south	det
15	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 penguins	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not meet	present	They						vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	live	present	polar bears			the north and penguins in the south			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in north=Location

Option 3

They meet every winter at the equator, halfway between the poles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 meet	nsubj
2	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 winter	det
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meet	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 equator	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 equator	det
7	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 meet	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 poles	punct
9	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	12 poles	advmod
10	between	between	ADP	_	12 poles	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 poles	det
12	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 meet	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present	They			the equator	winter	between the poles	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They are friends in the Arctic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 friends	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 friends	cop
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 Arctic	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Arctic	det
6	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 friends	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	friends		the Arctic			tree rules

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