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title: «christmas card's got polar bears and penguins being mates, aww» Wha… — Antarctica: penguins, seals and the co… · tree and pragmatics
description: «christmas card's got polar bears and penguins being mates, aww» What is right? Test 1 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 1 · ★★ · Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
«christmas card's got polar bears and penguins being mates, aww» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** christmas card, penguins · **What happens:** get, be · **To what, where:** polar bears, mates

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth» 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/7-antarctica/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t1:1
# text = «christmas card's got polar bears and penguins being mates, aww» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	aww	aww	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | present · passive | christmas card | polar bears and mates |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | gerund | penguins | mates |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | 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 {#o1}

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Polar bears eat penguins every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t1:o1:1
# text = Polar bears eat penguins every day
1	Polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | present | Polar bears | penguins |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penguin=Patient |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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They never meet: polar bears live in the north, penguins in the south

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t1:o2:1
# text = They never meet: polar bears live in the north, penguins in the south
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	penguins	penguin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **meet** | present | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **live** | present | polar bears |  |  | the north and penguins in the south |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in north=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They meet every winter at the equator, halfway between the poles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t1:o3:1
# text = They meet every winter at the equator, halfway between the poles
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	equator	equator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	halfway	halfway	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | They |  |  | the equator | winter | between the poles | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They are friends in the Arctic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t1:o4:1
# text = They are friends in the Arctic
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Arctic	Arctic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | They | friends |  | the Arctic |  |  | 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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