Test 2 · The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 2 of lesson 7 «The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	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 equator runs from pole to pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 equator	det
2	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runs	nsubj
3	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 pole	case
5	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runs	obl
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 pole	case
7	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	the equator			pole		to pole result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to pole=Result

Option 2

The equator runs all the way from the North Pole to the South Pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 equator	det
2	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runs	nsubj
3	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 way	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runs	obj
7	from	from	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 way	nmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 Pole	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Pole	det
13	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Pole	compound
14	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 runs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	the equator	all way	the South Pole	the North Pole			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to pole=Destination from pole=Initial_Location

Option 3

The equator passes through the North Pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 equator	det
2	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passes	nsubj
3	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	7 Pole	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Pole	det
6	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Pole	compound
7	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 passes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	present	the equator			the North Pole			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through pole=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The equator is halfway between the North and South Poles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 equator	det
2	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Poles	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 Poles	cop
4	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	10 Poles	advmod
5	between	between	ADP	_	10 Poles	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Poles	det
7	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Poles	compound
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 South	cc
9	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 North	conj
10	Poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the equator					between the North Poles; halfway property	tree rules

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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