Test 8 · Deserts

«death valley's the hottest place ever, 100 percent proven» What is the fairest answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: death valley, 100 percent · What happens: be, prove · To what, where: hottest place, 100 percent, fairest answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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	_	7 place	punct
2	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 valley	compound
3	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 place	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 place	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 place	det
6	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 place	amod
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 answer	nsubj
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 place	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 percent	punct
10	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 percent	nummod
11	percent	percent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 place	appos
12	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 percent	acl
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 proven	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 proven	obj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 answer	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 answer	det
17	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 answer	amod
18	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	death valley	the hottest place	ever	tree rules
2	prove in a quote	participle	100 percent not said here	100 percent		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	be speech: assert	present		the fairest answer		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

Yes, it is proven beyond any doubt by every single expert who has looked

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 proven	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 proven	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 proven	aux:pass
5	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	8 doubt	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 doubt	det
8	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proven	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 expert	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 expert	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 expert	amod
12	expert	expert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proven	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 looked	nsubj
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 looked	aux
15	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 expert	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present · passive	every single expert	it				beyond any doubt	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	look	present · perfect	every single expert						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

No, Antarctica is hotter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 hotter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hotter	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hotter	cop
5	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Antarctica					hot property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It holds the record of 56.7 degrees, but some experts doubt that reading

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	2 holds	nsubj
2	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 record	det
4	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 holds	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 degrees	case
6	56.7	56.7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 degrees	nummod
7	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 record	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 doubt	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 doubt	cc
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 experts	det
11	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 doubt	nsubj
12	doubt	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 holds	conj
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 reading	det
14	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 doubt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hold	present	It	the record of 56.7 degrees	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent record=Theme
2	doubt	present	some experts	that reading	vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reading=Theme
3	record			56.7 degrees	nom record «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

No, London is hotter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 hotter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 hotter	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hotter	cop
5	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	London					hot property	tree rules

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