Test 7 · Continents and oceans

Which statement about the Pacific Ocean is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: statement · What happens: be

This is test 7 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 statement	det
2	statement	statement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 true	nsubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	6 Ocean	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Ocean	det
5	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ocean	compound
6	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 statement	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 true	cop
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which statement about the Pacific Ocean					true property	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

It lies all around the North Pole under the ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lies	nsubj
2	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	ADV	_	2 lies	advmod
4	around	around	ADP	_	7 Pole	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Pole	det
6	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Pole	compound
7	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lies	obl
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 ice	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ice	det
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	It			the North Pole		under the ice; all property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around pole=Location

Option 2

It is a huge lake of fresh water you can drink

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lake	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lake	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lake	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lake	amod
5	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lake	nmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 drink	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 drink	aux
11	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lake	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a huge lake				of fresh water	tree rules
2	drink	can	you	a huge lake not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=Patient

Option 3

It is the smallest and shallowest of the five oceans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 smallest	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 smallest	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smallest	det
4	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shallowest	cc
6	shallowest	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 smallest	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 oceans	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 oceans	det
9	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 oceans	nummod
10	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shallowest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					small property	tree rules
2	be							of the five oceans	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

All the land on Earth would fit inside it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 land	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 land	det
3	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fit	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 Earth	case
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 land	nmod
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fit	aux
7	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	inside	inside	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fit	would	all land on Earth			it			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent inside it=Trajectory

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