Test 12 · ★ · Deserts, rainforests and grasslands

my mate says the biggest desert in the world is the Sahara. true?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, biggest desert · What happens: say, be · To what, where: Sahara · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 66 «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 desert	det
5	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 desert	amod
6	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Sahara	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 desert	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Sahara	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sahara	det
12	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 true	punct
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the biggest desert in the world	the Sahara					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

Yes, because deserts must be hot and sandy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 hot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hot	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 hot	mark
4	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hot	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hot	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 hot	cop
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sandy	cc
9	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	deserts					hot property	tree rules
2	be		deserts not said here						tree rules

Option 2

No, the Amazon is the largest desert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 desert	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Amazon	det
4	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 desert	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 desert	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 desert	det
7	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 desert	amod
8	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Amazon	the largest desert					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, Antarctica is the largest; the Sahara is the largest hot desert

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 largest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 largest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 largest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 largest	det
6	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 desert	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sahara	det
9	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 desert	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 desert	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 desert	det
12	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 desert	amod
13	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 desert	amod
14	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 largest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Antarctica					large property	tree rules
2	is a	present	the Sahara	the largest hot desert					tree rules

Option 4

Yes, the Sahara is the largest desert of any kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 desert	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sahara	det
4	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 desert	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 desert	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 desert	det
7	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 desert	amod
8	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 kind	case
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 kind	det
11	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 desert	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Sahara	the largest desert				of any kind	tree rules

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