Test 6 · The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator
A penguin lives near the South Pole. In which hemisphere does it live?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: penguin · What happens: live · To what, where: South Pole, hemisphere
This is test 6 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
Sentence 1: A penguin lives near the South Pole.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 penguin | det |
| 2 | penguin | penguin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | nsubj |
| 3 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 Pole | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Pole | det |
| 6 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Pole | compound |
| 7 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lives | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a penguin | the South Pole | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near pole=Location |
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.
Sentence 2: In which hemisphere does it live?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 hemisphere | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 hemisphere | det |
| 3 | hemisphere | hemisphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obl |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 live | aux |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 live | nsubj |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 live | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · do-support | penguin | which hemisphere | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hemisphere=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The Northern Hemisphere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hemisphere | det |
| 2 | Northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Hemisphere | amod |
| 3 | Hemisphere | hemisphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The Southern Hemisphere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hemisphere | det |
| 2 | Southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Hemisphere | amod |
| 3 | Hemisphere | hemisphere | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
In both at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 both | case |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 both | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
On the equator
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 equator | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 equator | det |
| 3 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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