Test 5 · Inside the Earth

Mia reckons the core must be the coldest place because it's furthest from the Sun. Right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, core · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: coldest place

This is test 5 of lesson 41 «Inside the Earth» 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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 core	det
4	core	core	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 place	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 place	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 place	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 place	det
8	coldest	cold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 place	amod
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	ccomp
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 furthest	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 furthest	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 furthest	cop
13	furthest	furth	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 place	acl:relcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 Sun.	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Sun.	det
16	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 furthest	obl
17	Right	right	INTJ	_	2 reckons	discourse
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Mia				vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	must	the core	the coldest place			tree rules
3	is	present	core	the coldest place not said here	sunday	furth 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's only as warm as a summer day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 warm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 warm	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 warm	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 warm	advmod
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 warm	advmod
7	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 day	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
10	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 day	compound
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 warm	obl

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

Option 2

Yes, it's about the same temperature as the North Pole in winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 temperature	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 temperature	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 temperature	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	8 temperature	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 temperature	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 temperature	amod
8	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 Pole	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Pole	det
11	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Pole	compound
12	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 temperature	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 winter	case
14	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 temperature	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the same temperature			winter	as the North Pole; about property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it's about 5,000-6,000 °C from the Earth's own heat

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 5,000-6	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 5,000-6	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 5,000-6	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 5,000-6	advmod
6	5,000-6	5,000-6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 000	punct
8	000	000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 5,000-6	conj
9	°	°	ADP	_	10 C	case
10	C	C	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 000	nmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	16 heat	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Earth	det
13	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 heat	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Earth	case
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 heat	amod
16	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 000	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	5,000-6				about property	tree rules
2	heat		the Earth						nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Yes, it's frozen solid iron

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 frozen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 frozen	nsubj:pass
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 frozen	aux:pass
5	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 iron	amod
7	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frozen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present · passive		it					tree rules

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