--- title: A scientist works for a few months a year on a continent with no tow… — Continents and oceans · tree and pragmatics description: A scientist works for a few months a year on a continent with no towns, covered with thick ice. Where is she? Test 2 of lesson 42 «Continents and oceans» of the world 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/world/42-continents-and-oceans/t2/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Continents and oceans](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/42-continents-and-oceans/) / t2 # Test 2 · Continents and oceans A scientist works for a few months a year on a continent with no towns, covered with thick ice. Where is she? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** scientist · **What happens:** work, cover, be · **To what, where:** towns This is test 2 of lesson 42 «Continents and oceans» of the world 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/world/42-continents-and-oceans/#t2). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A scientist works for a few months a year on a continent with no towns, covered with thick ice. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:t2:1 # text = A scientist works for a few months a year on a continent with no towns, covered with thick ice. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 scientist scientist NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 continent continent NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 15 det _ _ 15 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | a scientist | | | | month; year | on a continent with no towns | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on continent=Theme | | 2 | **cover** | participle | | no towns *not said here* | | | | with thick ice | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ice=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* Where is she? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:t2:2 # text = Where is she? 1 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Int 0 root _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | scientist | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Europe ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:t2:o1:1 # text = Europe 1 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Australia ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:t2:o2:1 # text = Australia 1 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Asia ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:t2:o3:1 # text = Asia 1 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Antarctica ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:42-continents-and-oceans:t2:o4:1 # text = Antarctica 1 Antarctica Antarctica PROPN NNP Number=Sing 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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