Test 1 · ★ · The Arctic and Antarctica

A cartoon shows a polar bear hunting penguins. Could this happen in the wild?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, polar bear, this · What happens: show, hunt, happen · To what, where: polar bear, penguins, wild

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 15 «The Arctic and Antarctica» of the geography 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

Sentence 1: A cartoon shows a polar bear hunting penguins.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bear	det
5	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bear	amod
6	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
7	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 bear	acl
8	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hunting	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon	a polar bear					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bear=Recipient
2	hunt	gerund	a polar bear not said here	penguins					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penguin=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: Could this happen in the wild?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 happen	nsubj
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 wild	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wild	det
6	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	could	this			the wild			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in wild=Location

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, polar bears live only in the Arctic and wild penguins only in the south

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 live	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 live	punct
3	polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bears	amod
4	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	nsubj
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 Arctic	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 Arctic	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Arctic	det
9	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 live	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 penguins	cc
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 penguins	amod
12	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 Arctic	conj
13	only	only	ADV	_	16 south	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 south	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 south	det
16	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	polar bears			the Arctic and wild penguins		in the south	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arctic=Location

Option 2

Yes, they meet in Antarctica

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 meet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meet	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 meet	nsubj
4	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Antarctica	case
6	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 meet	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	present	they			Antarctica			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, they meet at the North Pole every winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 meet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meet	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 meet	nsubj
4	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 Pole	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Pole	det
7	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Pole	compound
8	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 meet	obl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 winter	det
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meet	obl:unmarked

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

Option 4

Yes, but only in summer when the bears swim south across the ocean to find food

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 summer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 summer	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 summer	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 swim	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bears	det
9	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 swim	nsubj
10	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 summer	acl:relcl
11	south	south	ADV	_	10 swim	advmod
12	across	across	ADP	_	14 ocean	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ocean	det
14	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swim	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 find	mark
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 swim	advcl
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	the bears			the ocean		south property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across ocean=Trajectory
2	find	to-infinitive	the bears not said here	food					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

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