Test 9 · ★ · The Arctic and Antarctica

«how long's the longest day at the north pole then» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ 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 long	punct
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 long	advmod
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 right	advmod
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 long	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
6	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 day	amod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 long	obl:unmarked
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 pole	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pole	det
10	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pole	compound
11	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	nmod
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 »	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 long	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	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present					day	long property	tree rules
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 · ← Mova's choice

There is no daylight at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 daylight	det
4	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 is	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no daylight			all; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

Option 2

About 12 hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 12	advmod
2	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 hours	nummod
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

About six months of daylight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 months	nummod
3	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 daylight	case
5	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 months	nmod

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

Option 4

Exactly 24 hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	_	2 24	advmod
2	24	24	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 hours	nummod
3	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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