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title: «sun at 11 at night?? norway's broken lol» Which is the best answer? — The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar be… · tree and pragmatics
description: «sun at 11 at night?? norway's broken lol» Which is the best answer? Test 10 of lesson 6 «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world

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«sun at 11 at night?? norway's broken lol» Which is the best answer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** break, be · **To what, where:** best answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 of lesson 6 «The Arctic: ice, snow and the polar bear's world» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/6-the-arctic/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t10:1
# text = «sun at 11 at night?? norway's broken lol» Which is the best answer?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	??	??	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
8	norway	norway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	lol	lol	NOUN	NN	_	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
13	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **be** *speech: assert* | present |  | the best answer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The northern lights are so bright that they make it look like the sun is still up

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t10:o1:1
# text = The northern lights are so bright that they make it look like the sun is still up
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the northern lights |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | lights *= light* | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | like the sun | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | present | the northern lights *not said here* |  |  |  | still | up *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The Earth's tilt keeps the far north in sunlight all day in midsummer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t10:o2:1
# text = The Earth's tilt keeps the far north in sunlight all day in midsummer
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	tilt	tilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	midsummer	midsummer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | present | the Earth's tilt | the far north |  | sunlight | day | in midsummer | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent north=Theme in sunlight=Location |
| 2 | **tilt** |  | the Earth |  |  |  |  |  | nom tilt «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The sun stops moving in summer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t10:o3:1
# text = The sun stops moving in summer
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **move** | gerund | the sun *not said here* |  |  |  | summer |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Norway is closer to the sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:6-the-arctic:t10:o4:1
# text = Norway is closer to the sun
1	Norway	Norway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Norway |  |  |  |  | to the sun; close *property* | tree rules |

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**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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