Test 13 · ★★ · Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands

a video said Antarctica is just a big frozen ocean like the Arctic. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: video, Antarctica · What happens: say, be · To what, where: big frozen ocean · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★★ 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 video	det
2	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 ocean	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 ocean	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	10 ocean	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ocean	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ocean	amod
9	frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ocean	amod
10	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 Arctic	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Arctic	det
13	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 ocean	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 ocean	punct
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a video						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Antarctica	a big frozen ocean				like the Arctic	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 · ✓ the right answer

No, Antarctica is land covered by a thick ice sheet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 land	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 land	compound
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 land	cop
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 land	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	11 sheet	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sheet	det
9	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sheet	amod
10	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sheet	compound
11	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Antarctica land					tree rules
2	cover	participle		Antarctica land not said here				by a thick ice sheet	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, both poles are frozen oceans with no land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 frozen	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 poles	det
4	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 frozen	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 frozen	aux:pass
6	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 frozen	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 land	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 land	det
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 frozen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present · passive		both poles				with no land	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, but the Antarctic ice is thicker than the Arctic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 thicker	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 thicker	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ice	det
5	Antarctic	Antarctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 ice	compound
6	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thicker	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 thicker	cop
8	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 Arctic	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Arctic	det
11	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 thicker	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Antarctic ice					than the Arctic; thick property	tree rules

Option 4

No, Antarctica is land with almost no ice on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 land	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 land	compound
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 land	cop
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 ice	case
7	almost	almost	ADV	_	9 ice	advmod
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 ice	det
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 land	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ice	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Antarctica land				with no ice on ice	tree rules

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