Test 13 · Continents and oceans

Noah reckons Australia's the biggest continent. right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Noah · What happens: reckon · To what, where: Australia

This is test 13 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	Noah	Noah	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	obj
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Australia	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 continent	det
6	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 continent	amod
7	continent	continent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	2 reckons	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Noah	Australia					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent australia=Theme continent=Attribute

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

Yes, it is bigger than Asia

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 bigger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bigger	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bigger	cop
5	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 Asia	case
7	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bigger	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					than Asia; big property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, Australia is the largest of all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 largest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 largest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 largest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 largest	det
6	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 largest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Australia					of all; large property	tree rules

Option 3

No, Africa is the smallest and Australia is the largest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 smallest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 smallest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 smallest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 smallest	det
6	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Australia	cc
8	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 smallest	conj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 largest	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 largest	det
11	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 smallest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Africa					small property	tree rules
2	is	present	Africa not said here					large property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, Australia is the smallest and Asia is the largest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 smallest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 smallest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 smallest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 smallest	det
6	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Asia	cc
8	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 smallest	conj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 largest	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 largest	det
11	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 smallest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Australia					small property	tree rules
2	is	present	Australia not said here					large property	tree rules

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