Test 1 · Deserts
Josh says: «Antarctica can't be a desert, it's all ice!» What is the best answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Josh, Antarctica, desert, best answer · What happens: say, not be, be · To what, where: desert, ice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 1 of lesson 18 «Deserts» 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
Sentence 1: Josh says: «Antarctica can't be a desert, it's all ice!»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 desert | punct |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 desert | punct |
| 5 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 desert | nsubj |
| 6 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 desert | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 desert | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 desert | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 desert | det |
| 10 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 says | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ice | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ice | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ice | cop |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 ice | det |
| 15 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 desert | nmod |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 ice | punct |
| 17 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 15 ice | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | present | Josh | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | can | Antarctica | a desert | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | desert | all ice | 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.
Sentence 2: What is the best answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 answer | amod |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It is only a desert in summer
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 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 desert | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 desert | det |
| 5 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 summer | case |
| 7 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 desert | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | It | a desert | summer | tree rules |
Option 2
Josh is right, deserts must be sandy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josh | Josh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sandy | punct |
| 5 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sandy | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sandy | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sandy | cop |
| 8 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 right | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Josh | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | must | deserts | sandy property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It is a desert because very little snow 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 | _ | 9 falls | mark |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 little | advmod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 snow | amod |
| 8 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 falls | nsubj |
| 9 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 desert | acl:relcl |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 falls | advmod |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 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 | a desert not said here | there | year | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient desert=Result |
Option 4
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 |
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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