Test 12 · Climate zones

my cousin says deserts are always hot, so Antarctica can't be one. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, deserts · What happens: say, be, not be · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 of lesson 16 «Climate zones» of the world 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hot	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 hot	cop
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 hot	advmod
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 true	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	16 true	advmod
10	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 true	nsubj
11	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 true	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 one	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 one	cop
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 true	nsubj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 true	punct
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my cousin			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	deserts		always, hot property	tree rules
3	not is a	infinitive		one		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

Yes, deserts must be hot and sandy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 hot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hot	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hot	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hot	cop
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sandy	cc
8	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	deserts					hot property	tree rules
2	be		deserts not said here						tree rules

Option 2

Yes, Antarctica has far too much ice and snow to be a desert at all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 much	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ice	amod
8	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 snow	cc
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ice	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	14 desert	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 desert	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 desert	det
14	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ice	conj
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 desert	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Antarctica	much ice and snow and a desert					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Patient
2	is a	to-infinitive	Antarctica not said here	a desert		all			tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, a desert is a place with very little rain or snow, hot or cold

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 place	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 desert	det
4	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 place	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 place	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 place	det
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 rain	case
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 little	advmod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rain	amod
11	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 place	nmod
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 snow	cc
13	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rain	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hot	punct
15	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 place	parataxis
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 cold	cc
17	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a desert	a place				with little rain or snow	tree rules

Option 4

No, Antarctica is a desert because it's flat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 desert	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 desert	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 desert	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 desert	det
6	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 flat	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 flat	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 flat	cop
10	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 desert	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Antarctica	a desert					tree rules
2	is	present	desert					flat 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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