Test 5 · ★★ · The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to…

«the middle of Australia is jungle innit, that's where the roos are» What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: middle, that, jungle innit · What happens: be · To what, where: jungle innit

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 61 «The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey» 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	_	8 innit	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 innit	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Australia	case
5	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 innit	cop
7	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 innit	compound
8	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 true	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 where	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 where	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 where	cop
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 true	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 roos	det
14	roos	roo	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 true	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 »	cop
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 roos	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 true	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 true	cop
19	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the middle of Australia	jungle innit		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	that		where property	tree rules
3	is	present	jungle innit		true 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

It is a wet, steamy rainforest like the Amazon

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	7 rainforest	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 rainforest	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rainforest	det
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rainforest	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wet	punct
6	steamy	steamy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rainforest	amod
7	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 Amazon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Amazon	det
10	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rainforest	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a wet steamy rainforest				like the Amazon	tree rules

Option 2

It is covered in deep snow most of the 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	3 covered	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 covered	aux:pass
3	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 snow	case
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 snow	amod
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covered	obl
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 covered	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 year	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 year	det
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present · passive		It		deep snow			tree rules

Option 3

It is the sea, with islands

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 sea	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sea	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 islands	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 islands	case
7	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sea	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	the sea and islands					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is mostly hot desert and dry grassland

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	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	5 desert	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 desert	amod
5	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grassland	cc
7	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grassland	amod
8	grassland	grassland	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 desert	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	hot desert and dry grassland				mostly 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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