Test 4 · ★ · The Book of Dragons, The Ice Dragon, part 1: George and Ja…

Mate, what's the Aurora Borealis when it's at home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, Borealis · What happens: be · To what, where: Aurora Borealis, home

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 643 «The Book of Dragons, The Ice Dragon, part 1: George and Jane sneak out to see the Northern Lights and set off across the snowy fields toward the North Pole.» of the books 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Borealis	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 Borealis	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 Borealis	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Borealis	det
6	Aurora	Aurora	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Borealis	compound
7	Borealis	Borealis	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	appos
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 home	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 home	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 home	cop
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 home	case
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Borealis	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mate	the Aurora Borealis					tree rules
2	is	present	Borealis			home			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 Arctic shimmer, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shimmer	det
2	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shimmer	amod
3	shimmer	shimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 innit	punct
5	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shimmer	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The Aurora Borealis, the bright lights up north, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Borealis	det
2	Aurora	Aurora	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Borealis	compound
3	Borealis	Borealis	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lights	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lights	det
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lights	amod
7	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Borealis	conj
8	up	up	ADV	_	9 north	advmod
9	north	north	ADV	_	7 lights	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Borealis	punct
11	innit	innit	INTJ	_	3 Borealis	discourse

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Northern Lights, innit

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	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 innit	punct
5	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Lights	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Like the Northern Lights, but dead far up in the sky, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 Lights	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lights	det
3	Northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Lights	amod
4	Lights	Light	PROPN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 dead	cc
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Lights	conj
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 up	advmod
9	up	up	ADV	_	7 dead	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sky	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sky	det
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Lights	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Lights	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Lights	vocative

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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