Test 2 · ★ · The Arctic and Antarctica

«antarctica's just a huge iceberg floating on the sea right» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: antarctica, huge iceberg · What happens: be, float · To what, where: huge iceberg, sea

This is test 2 · ★ 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	7 iceberg	punct
2	antarctica	antarctica	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 iceberg	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 iceberg	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	7 iceberg	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 iceberg	det
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 iceberg	amod
7	iceberg	iceberg	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 right	nsubj
8	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 iceberg	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 floating	obl
12	right	right	ADV	_	16 right	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 right	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	antarctica	a huge iceberg			tree rules
2	float in a quote	gerund	a huge iceberg not said here		the sea		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sea=Trajectory
3	is	present	a huge iceberg			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, like the North Pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 Pole	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Pole	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 Pole	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Pole	det
5	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Pole	compound
6	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes, it is floating ice with nothing under it but water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 ice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ice	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ice	cop
5	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 ice	amod
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 nothing	case
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 ice	nmod
9	under	under	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 nothing	nmod
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 water	cc
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	it	floating ice but water				with nothing	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it is a continent of land covered by thick ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 continent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 continent	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 continent	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 continent	det
6	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 land	case
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 continent	nmod
9	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 continent	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 ice	case
11	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ice	amod
12	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a continent				of land	tree rules
2	cover	participle		a continent not said here				by thick ice	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 4

No, it is a ring of islands with no ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 ring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ring	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ring	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ring	det
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 islands	case
8	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ring	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 ice	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 ice	det
11	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 islands	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a ring				of islands with no ice	tree rules

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