Test 9 · ★★ · Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth

«antarctica's got towns innit, people live there» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: antarctica, people · What happens: get, live, be · To what, where: towns innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	_	4 got	punct
2	antarctica	antarctica	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 got	aux
4	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 innit	compound
6	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 live	punct
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 live	nsubj
9	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 got	parataxis
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 live	advmod
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	present · passive	antarctica	towns innit			tree rules
2	live in a quote	present	people		there		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
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 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it has big towns and schools

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 towns	amod
6	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 schools	cc
8	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 towns	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	it	big towns and schools					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Patient

Option 2

No, nobody has ever been there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 there	advmod
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 there	cop
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 has	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	nobody						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle					ever	there property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No one lives there for good; only scientists and support staff stay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lives	nsubj
3	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lives	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 good	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lives	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 stay	punct
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 scientists	advmod
9	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stay	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 staff	cc
11	support	support	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 staff	compound
12	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 scientists	conj
13	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lives	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	no one			there		for good	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay	present	scientists and support staff						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, people farm sheep there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 farm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 farm	nsubj
4	farm	farm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 farm	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 farm	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	farm	present	people	sheep		there			vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient

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