Test 8 · ★ · The Arctic and Antarctica

«scott got to the south pole first innit, the british guy» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scott · What happens: get, be · To what, where: british guy

This is test 8 · ★ 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	_	3 got	punct
2	scott	scott	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 pole	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pole	det
6	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pole	compound
7	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 innit	advmod
9	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pole	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 guy	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 guy	det
12	british	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 guy	amod
13	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 guy	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 right	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past	scott	the british guy				to the south pole innit	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guy=Stimulus
2	is	present						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

Scott was first by a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scott	Scott	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 was	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 year	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 year	det
6	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	Scott				year	first property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody has ever reached the South Pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 reached	nsubj:pass
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reached	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 reached	advmod
4	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Pole	det
6	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Pole	compound
7	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	present · perfect · passive		Nobody			ever		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary pole=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Amundsen's Norwegian team got there first, about a month before Scott

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Amundsen	Amundsen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 team	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Amundsen	case
3	Norwegian	Norwegian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 team	amod
4	team	team	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 got	advmod
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 got	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 month	punct
9	about	about	ADV	_	11 month	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 month	det
11	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 Scott	case
13	Scott	Scott	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Amundsen's Norwegian team			there	before Scott; month	first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

They arrived on the same day and shook hands at the Pole, then went home

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 arrived	nsubj
2	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 day	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 day	amod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arrived	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shook	cc
8	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 arrived	conj
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shook	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 Pole	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Pole	det
12	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 shook	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 went	advmod
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 arrived	conj
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	They			day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shake	past	They not said here	hands	the Pole			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hand=Theme at pole=Trajectory
3	go	past	They not said here			then	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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