Test 10 · ★ · The Arctic and Antarctica

Why do far more people go to Antarctica in summer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: more people · What happens: go · To what, where: Antarctica

This is test 10 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 go	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 more	advmod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 Antarctica	case
8	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 summer	case
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · do-support	more people			Antarctica	summer		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to antarctica=Initial_Location

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 ice melts completely in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ice	det
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melts	nsubj
3	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	completely	completely	ADV	_	3 melts	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 summer	case
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 melts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	the ice				summer	completely property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is light most of the day and a little less cold, so work and travel are possible

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 light	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 light	cop
3	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 light	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 most	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cold	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 little	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 less	obl
11	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 cold	advmod
12	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 day	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 possible	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	19 possible	advmod
15	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 possible	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 travel	cc
17	travel	travel	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 work	conj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 possible	cop
19	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 light	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					most of the day obl; light property	tree rules
2	is	present	work and travel					possible property	tree rules

Option 3

Summer is the only time it snows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 time	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 time	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 time	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 time	amod
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 snows	nsubj
7	snows	snow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 time	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Summer	the only time					tree rules
2	snow	present	it	the only time not said here					tree rules

Option 4

Planes can only fly at night, and summer has the longest and darkest nights

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Planes	plane	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fly	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 fly	advmod
4	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fly	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 has	cc
9	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fly	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 nights	det
12	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 nights	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 darkest	cc
14	darkest	dark	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 longest	conj
15	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	can	Planes				night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	present	summer				night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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