Test 12 · Continents and oceans

my classmate says the Arctic is a continent with land at the North Pole. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: classmate, Arctic · What happens: say, be · To what, where: continent, North Pole · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 of lesson 42 «Continents and oceans» 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 classmate	nmod:poss
2	classmate	classmate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Arctic	det
5	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 continent	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 continent	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 continent	det
8	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 land	case
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 continent	nmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 Pole	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Pole	det
13	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Pole	compound
14	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 continent	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 continent	punct
16	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my classmate					true property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the Arctic	a continent		the North Pole		with land	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, the Arctic is part of Europe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 part	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Arctic	det
4	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 part	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 part	cop
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Europe	case
8	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Arctic	part				of Europe	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, the North Pole is on a continent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 continent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Pole	det
4	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Pole	compound
5	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 continent	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 continent	cop
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 continent	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 continent	det
9	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the North Pole			a continent			tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, the Arctic is an ocean; Antarctica is the icy continent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 ocean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Arctic	det
4	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 ocean	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 ocean	cop
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ocean	det
7	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 continent	punct
9	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 continent	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 continent	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 continent	det
12	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 continent	amod
13	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ocean	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Arctic	a ocean					tree rules
2	is a	present	Antarctica	the icy continent					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, it is the eighth continent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 continent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 continent	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 continent	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 continent	det
6	eighth	eighth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 continent	amod
7	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	the eighth continent					tree rules

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