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title: «antarctica's just a huge iceberg floating on the sea right» What is… — The Arctic and Antarctica · tree and pragmatics
description: «antarctica's just a huge iceberg floating on the sea right» What is right? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 15 «The Arctic and Antarctica» of the geography 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 2 · ★ · The Arctic and Antarctica

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«antarctica's just a huge iceberg floating on the sea right» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** antarctica, huge iceberg · **What happens:** be, float · **To what, where:** huge iceberg, sea

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 15 «The Arctic and Antarctica» of the geography 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/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:t2:1
# text = «antarctica's just a huge iceberg floating on the sea right» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	antarctica	antarctica	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	iceberg	iceberg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
8	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	right	right	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | antarctica | a huge iceberg |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **float** *in a quote* | gerund | a huge iceberg *not said here* |  |  | the sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sea=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | present | a huge iceberg |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Yes, like the North Pole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:t2:o1:1
# text = Yes, like the North Pole
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, it is floating ice with nothing under it but water

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:t2:o2:1
# text = Yes, it is floating ice with nothing under it but water
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nmod	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | it | floating ice but water |  |  |  | with nothing | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, it is a continent of land covered by thick ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:t2:o3:1
# text = No, it is a continent of land covered by thick ice
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	continent	continent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | a continent |  |  |  | of land | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | a continent *not said here* |  |  |  | by thick ice | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, it is a ring of islands with no ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:t2:o4:1
# text = No, it is a ring of islands with no ice
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	11	det	_	_
11	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | it | a ring |  |  |  | of islands with no ice | 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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