Test 2 · Continents and oceans
A scientist works for a few months a year on a continent with no towns, covered with thick ice. Where is she?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: scientist · What happens: work, cover, be · To what, where: towns
This is test 2 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
Sentence 1: A scientist works for a few months a year on a continent with no towns, covered with thick ice.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 scientist | det |
| 2 | scientist | scientist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 works | nsubj |
| 3 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 months | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 months | det |
| 6 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 months | amod |
| 7 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 works | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 works | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 continent | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 continent | det |
| 12 | continent | continent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 works | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 towns | case |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 towns | det |
| 15 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 continent | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 covered | punct |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 towns | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 ice | case |
| 19 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ice | amod |
| 20 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 covered | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 works | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | a scientist | month; year | on a continent with no towns | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on continent=Theme | |||
| 2 | cover | participle | no towns not said here | with thick ice | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ice=Theme |
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: Where is she?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | scientist | where property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Europe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Australia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Asia
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Antarctica
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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