Test 6 · ★ · The Arctic and Antarctica

Why does losing white sea ice make the Arctic warm even faster?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: losing · What happens: lose, make · To what, where: white sea ice

This is test 6 · ★ 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	3 losing	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 losing	aux
3	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 make	csubj
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ice	amod
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ice	compound
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 losing	obj
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 warm	det
9	Arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 warm	amod
10	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 make	xcomp
11	even	even	ADV	_	12 faster	advmod
12	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 warm	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · do-support		white sea ice					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Eventuality
2	make	present	losing					warm property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

Polar bears warm the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Polar	polar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bears	amod
2	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 warm	nsubj
3	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warm	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm	present	Polar bears	the water					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Dark open sea soaks up more sunlight than white ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sea	amod
2	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sea	amod
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soaks	nsubj
4	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 soaks	compound:prt
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 sunlight	amod
7	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soaks	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 ice	case
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ice	amod
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soaks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak up	present	Dark open sea	more sunlight				than white ice	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sunlight=Source

Option 3

Melting ice gives off heat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Melting	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 ice	amod
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	nsubj
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 gives	compound:prt
5	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	gerund							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	give off	present	Melting ice	heat					vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source heat=Theme

Option 4

The Sun moves a little closer to the Arctic each year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 moves	nsubj
3	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 closer	obl:unmarked
6	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 moves	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Arctic	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Arctic	det
9	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 moves	obl
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 year	det
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moves	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	the Sun				year	to the Arctic result; close property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to arctic=Result

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