Test 8 · ★ · The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand

Why do few people live in the Outback?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: few people · What happens: live · To what, where: Outback

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 45 «The UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 few	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 few	aux
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 live	nsubj
5	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 Outback	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Outback	det
8	Outback	Outback	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 live	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 live	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	few people			the Outback			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in outback=Location

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 under the sea at every high tide

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	under	under	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lies	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 tide	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 tide	det
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tide	amod
9	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	It			the sea		at every high tide	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under sea=Location

Option 2

It is covered with thick dark forests

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	3 covered	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 covered	aux:pass
3	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 forests	case
5	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 forests	amod
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 forests	amod
7	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present · passive		It				with thick dark forests	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with forest=Theme

Option 3

It is far too cold to build any houses

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 cold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 cold	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 cold	advmod
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 build	mark
7	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cold	advcl
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 houses	det
9	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 build	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					cold, far property	tree rules
2	build	to-infinitive		any houses					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is very hot and has little water

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 hot	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 hot	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 has	cc
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	conj
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					hot property	tree rules
2	have	present		little water					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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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