Test 12 · ★★ · Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands

Leo says if the arctic sea ice melts the sea'll rise loads. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Leo, arctic sea ice, sea · What happens: say, melt, rise · To what, where: loads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 65 «Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands» 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	Leo	Leo	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 melts	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ice	det
5	arctic	arctic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ice	amod
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ice	compound
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 melts	nsubj
8	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rise	nsubj
11	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 rise	aux
12	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 melts	ccomp
13	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rise	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
15	right	right	INTJ	_	2 says	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Leo		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	melt a condition, not said to happen	present	the arctic sea ice		tree rules
3	rise	future	the sea	loads	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location load=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, melting floating sea ice hardly changes the sea level

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 ice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	melting	melt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 ice	acl
4	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 ice	amod
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ice	compound
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 changes	nsubj
7	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	8 changes	advmod
8	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 level	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 level	compound
11	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 changes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	melt	gerund	floating sea ice not said here			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	float	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	change	present	floating sea ice	the sea level	hardly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent level=Patient

Option 2

Yes, but only the ice near the North Pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 ice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 ice	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 ice	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ice	det
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	near	near	ADP	_	10 Pole	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Pole	det
9	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Pole	compound
10	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ice	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Yes, any melting ice at all raises the level of the sea by a lot

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 raises	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 ice	det
4	melting	melting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ice	compound
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 raises	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 ice	nmod
8	raises	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 level	det
10	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 raises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 level	nmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 lot	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lot	det
16	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 raises	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	present	any melting ice at all	the level of the sea				by a lot	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent level=Theme by lot=Destination

Option 4

No, melting sea ice makes the sea level fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 ice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	melting	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 ice	amod
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ice	compound
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	nsubj
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fall	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 level	compound
9	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fall	compound
10	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	gerund							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	make	present	melting sea ice	the level fall					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fall=Product

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