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Test 10 · ★★ · Seasons and tides

Someone in Norway says she had sunshine at midnight in June. Could that be true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Someone, Norway, that · What happens: say, have, be · To what, where: sunshine · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 40 «Seasons and tides» of the physics 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: Someone in Norway says she had sunshine at midnight in June.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 says	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 Norway	case
3	Norway	Norway	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Someone	nmod
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
7	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 midnight	case
9	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 June	case
11	June	June	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Someone						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	Norway	sunshine			june; midnight		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sunshine=Patient

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: Could that be true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 true	aux
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 true	nsubj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	could	that					true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yes, near the North Pole the Sun does not set in midsummer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 set	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	near	near	ADP	_	6 Pole	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Pole	det
5	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Pole	compound
6	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 set	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sun	det
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 set	nsubj
9	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 set	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 set	advmod
11	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 midsummer	case
13	midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not set	present · do-support	the Sun			the North Pole		in midsummer	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent near pole=Destination

Option 2

Yes, but only on a cloudy day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 day	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 day	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 day	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 day	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 day	det
7	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

No, the Sun always sets at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 sets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sun	det
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sets	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 sets	advmod
6	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sets	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	present	the Sun				night	always property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

No, it was the Moon shining

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 shining	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shining	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shining	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shining	det
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 shining	compound
7	shining	shining	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the Moon shining					tree rules

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