Test 2 · Deserts

«the sahara's all sand dunes like in the films right» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sand dunes · What happens: be

This is test 2 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	16 right	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sahara	det
3	sahara	sahara	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dunes	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 sahara	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 dunes	det
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dunes	compound
7	dunes	dune	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 right	nsubj
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 films	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 films	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 films	det
11	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dunes	nmod
12	right	right	ADV	_	16 right	advmod
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 right	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	present	the sahara's sand dunes like the films					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

No, it is mostly ice and snow, up in the high mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 ice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ice	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ice	cop
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	6 ice	advmod
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 snow	cc
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ice	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mountains	punct
10	up	up	ADV	_	14 mountains	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 mountains	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mountains	det
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mountains	amod
14	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	ice and snow and the high mountains				mostly property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Only about a quarter is dunes; most is rock and gravel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 quarter	advmod
2	about	about	ADV	_	4 quarter	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 quarter	det
4	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dunes	compound
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dunes	cop
6	dunes	dune	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 rock	punct
8	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 rock	amod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 rock	cop
10	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dunes	appos
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gravel	cc
12	gravel	gravel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rock	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		quarter dunes					tree rules
2	is a	present		most rock and gravel					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, every bit of it is sand, as deep as a house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 sand	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sand	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bit	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sand	cop
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 deep	punct
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 deep	advmod
11	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sand	amod
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 deep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	every bit of it	sand					tree rules

Option 4

No, it is mostly grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 grass	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grass	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 grass	cop
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	6 grass	advmod
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	grass				mostly property	tree rules

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