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title: What would happen to London if all of Antarctica's ice melted? — The Arctic and Antarctica · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to London if all of Antarctica's ice melted? Test 5 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 5 · ★ · The Arctic and Antarctica

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What would happen to London if all of Antarctica's ice melted?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ice · **What happens:** happen, melt · **To what, where:** London

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:t5:1
# text = What would happen to London if all of Antarctica's ice melted?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  | London |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **melt** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | all Antarctica's ice |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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The Thames would freeze

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:t5:o1:1
# text = The Thames would freeze
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Thames	Thames	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	freeze	freeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | would | the Thames |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
London would get drier

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:t5:o2:1
# text = London would get drier
1	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	drier	dry	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | London |  |  |  |  | dry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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It would be flooded, because sea levels would rise by about 58 metres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:t5:o3:1
# text = It would be flooded, because sea levels would rise by about 58 metres
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	flooded	flood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	levels	level	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	58	58	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flood** | would · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **rise** | would | sea levels |  |  |  |  | by 58 metres | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by metre=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nothing, the meltwater would just stay where it is, frozen in the south

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:t5:o4:1
# text = Nothing, the meltwater would just stay where it is, frozen in the south
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	meltwater	meltwater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
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	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | would | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | present | meltwater |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **freeze** | participle | Nothing *not said here* |  |  | the south |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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