Test 11 · ★ · The Arctic and Antarctica

Why might countries agree to set aside a whole continent for science?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: countries · What happens: agree, set · To what, where: whole continent

This is test 11 · ★ 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	4 agree	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 agree	aux
3	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 agree	nsubj
4	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 set	mark
6	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 agree	xcomp
7	aside	aside	ADV	_	6 set	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 continent	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 continent	amod
10	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 set	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 science	case
12	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 continent	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 agree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	might	countries						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	set not said to happen	to-infinitive	countries not said here	a whole continent				for science; aside property	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent continent=Patient for science=Beneficiary

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

Because science is cheaper than mining

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 cheaper	mark
2	science	science	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheaper	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cheaper	cop
4	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 mining	case
6	mining	mining	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheaper	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	science					than mining; cheap property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

So that no one fights over it and all can study it in peace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 fights	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 fights	mark
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fights	nsubj
5	fights	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fights	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 study	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 study	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 study	aux
11	study	study	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fights	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 study	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 peace	case
14	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 study	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	present	no one					over it	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over it=Theme
2	study	can	all	it		peace			vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

Because Antarctica belongs to the United Nations

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 belongs	mark
2	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 belongs	nsubj
3	belongs	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 Nations	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Nations	det
6	United	United	PROPN	_	7 Nations	compound
7	Nations	Nation	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 belongs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	belong	present	Antarctica					to the United Nations	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Because nobody wanted any land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 wanted	mark
2	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 land	det
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	nobody	any land					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot land=Theme

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