Test 3 · ★ · The Arctic and Antarctica

«Antarctica's a desert?? it's covered in ice you muppet» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Antarctica, you, ice · What happens: be, cover, muppet · To what, where: desert, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	_	5 desert	punct
2	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 desert	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 desert	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 desert	det
5	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 covered	nsubj:pass
6	??	??	PUNCT	_	5 desert	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 covered	nsubj:pass
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 covered	aux:pass
9	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 ice	case
11	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 covered	obl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 muppet	nsubj
13	muppet	muppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ice	conj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 muppet	punct
15	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 answer	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 answer	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 answer	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 answer	amod
19	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ice	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 covered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Antarctica	a desert		tree rules
2	cover in a quote	present · passive		a desert	in ice and muppet and the best answer	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in ice=Theme
3	muppet in a quote		you			tree rules
4	be speech: assert	present	ice and muppet and the best answer	the best answer		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

It is a desert because it is hot

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	4 desert	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 desert	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 desert	det
4	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 hot	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hot	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hot	cop
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 desert	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a desert					tree rules
2	is	present	desert					hot property	tree rules

Option 2

It is a desert because there is sand under the ice, just like in the Sahara

The tree, 16 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	4 desert	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 desert	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 desert	det
4	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 is	mark
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 is	expl
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 desert	acl:relcl
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 is	nsubj
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 ice	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ice	det
11	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 is	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Sahara	punct
13	just	just	ADV	_	17 Sahara	advmod
14	like	like	ADP	_	17 Sahara	case
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 Sahara	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Sahara	det
17	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 desert	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a desert and the Sahara					tree rules
2	be	present	sand	a desert and the Sahara not said here		the ice; there			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot desert=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is a desert because very little snow or rain falls there each year

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	4 desert	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 desert	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 desert	det
4	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 falls	mark
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 little	advmod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snow	amod
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 falls	nsubj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 rain	cc
10	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snow	conj
11	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 desert	acl:relcl
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 falls	advmod
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 year	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 falls	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a desert					tree rules
2	fall	present	little snow or rain	a desert not said here		there	year		vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient desert=Result

Option 4

It is not a desert at all

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	5 desert	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 desert	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 desert	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 desert	det
5	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 desert	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	It	a desert		all			tree rules

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