Test 4 · ★ · The Arctic and Antarctica

Why does a white icy surface make the poles even colder?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: white icy surface · What happens: make · To what, where: poles

This is test 4 · ★ 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	7 make	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 surface	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 surface	amod
5	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 surface	amod
6	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 poles	det
9	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 make	obj
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 colder	advmod
11	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 make	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · do-support	a white icy surface	the poles				cold property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pole=Product

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 right answer

White ice reflects most sunlight back into space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ice	amod
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reflects	nsubj
3	reflects	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 sunlight	amod
5	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reflects	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	3 reflects	advmod
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 space	case
8	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reflects	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reflect back	present	White ice	most sunlight		space			tree rules

Option 2

Ice soaks up all the heat of the Sun and stores it deep down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soaks	nsubj
2	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 soaks	compound:prt
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 heat	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heat	det
6	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 soaks	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sun	det
9	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 heat	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stores	cc
11	stores	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 soaks	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stores	obj
13	deep	deep	ADV	_	14 down	advmod
14	down	down	ADV	_	11 stores	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	soak up	present	Ice	all heat of the Sun		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent heat=Source
2	store	present	Ice not said here	heat	down property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	heat		the Sun			nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

The whiteness blocks the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 whiteness	det
2	whiteness	whiteness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blocks	nsubj
3	blocks	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blocks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	present	the whiteness	the wind					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer wind=Theme

Option 4

White ice makes its own cold air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ice	amod
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 air	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 air	amod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 air	amod
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	White ice	ice's own cold air					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset air=Product

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