--- title: «antarctica's got towns innit, people live there» What is right? — Antarctica: penguins, seals and the co… · tree and pragmatics description: «antarctica's got towns innit, people live there» What is right? Test 9 · ★★ 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 choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/7-antarctica/t9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Antarctica: penguins, seals and the co…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/7-antarctica/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★★ · Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth «antarctica's got towns innit, people live there» What is right? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** antarctica, people · **What happens:** get, live, be · **To what, where:** towns innit · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t9:1 # text = «antarctica's got towns innit, people live there» What is right? 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 antarctica antarctica NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 compound _ _ 6 innit innit NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 12 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 14 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** *in a quote* | present · passive | antarctica | towns innit | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** *in a quote* | present | people | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | right *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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Yes, it has big towns and schools ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t9:o1:1 # text = Yes, it has big towns and schools 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 schools school NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | it | big towns and schools | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} No, nobody has ever been there ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t9:o2:1 # text = No, nobody has ever been there 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 7 advmod _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 cop _ _ 7 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | nobody | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | participle | | | | | ever | there *property* | tree rules | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} No one lives there for good; only scientists and support staff stay ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t9:o3:1 # text = No one lives there for good; only scientists and support staff stay 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 support support NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 staff staff NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 13 stay stay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | no one | | | there | | for good | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stay** | present | scientists and support staff | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Yes, people farm sheep there ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:7-antarctica:t9:o4:1 # text = Yes, people farm sheep there 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 farm farm VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **farm** | present | people | sheep | | there | | | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient | **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. 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