Test 13 · ★ · Deserts, rainforests and grasslands

Ava reckons all deserts are just sand dunes everywhere. right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ava, deserts · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: sand dunes

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 deserts	det
4	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dunes	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dunes	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 dunes	advmod
7	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dunes	compound
8	dunes	dune	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reckons	parataxis
9	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 reckons	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	2 reckons	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Ava					everywhere property	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	all deserts	sand dunes					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, apart from the ones that are covered in ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 apart	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	apart	apart	ADV	_	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 ones	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ones	det
6	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 apart	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 covered	nsubj:pass
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 covered	aux:pass
9	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ones	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 ice	case
11	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present · passive		the ones				in ice	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in ice=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, every desert is covered in sand dunes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 covered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 desert	det
4	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 covered	nsubj:pass
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 covered	aux:pass
6	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 dunes	case
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dunes	compound
9	dunes	dune	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present · passive		every desert				in sand dunes	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in dune=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, most deserts are rocky or stony

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 rocky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 deserts	amod
4	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rocky	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 rocky	cop
6	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 stony	cc
8	stony	stony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rocky	conj

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

Option 4

No, most deserts are covered in short grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 covered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 covered	punct
3	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 deserts	amod
4	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 covered	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 covered	aux:pass
6	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 grass	case
8	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grass	amod
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present · passive		most deserts				in short grass	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in grass=Theme

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