--- title: «how long's the longest day at the north pole then» What is right? — The Arctic and Antarctica · tree and pragmatics description: «how long's the longest day at the north pole then» What is right? Test 9 · ★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/15-the-arctic-and-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/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/) / [The Arctic and Antarctica](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/) / t9 # Test 9 · ★ · The Arctic and Antarctica «how long's the longest day at the north pole then» What is right? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:t9:1 # text = «how long's the longest day at the north pole then» What is right? 1 « « PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 3 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 pole pole NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 » » PUNCT '' _ 3 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 _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | | | | | day | long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **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} There is no daylight at all ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:t9:o1:1 # text = There is no daylight at all 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 daylight daylight NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | no daylight | | | all; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location | ### Option 2 {#o2} About 12 hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:t9:o2:1 # text = About 12 hours 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} About six months of daylight ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:t9:o3:1 # text = About six months of daylight 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 daylight daylight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Exactly 24 hours ```conllu # sent_id = question:geography:15-the-arctic-and-antarctica:t9:o4:1 # text = Exactly 24 hours 1 Exactly exactly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 24 24 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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