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title: Ava reckons all deserts are just sand dunes everywhere. right? — Deserts, rainforests and grasslands · tree and pragmatics
description: Ava reckons all deserts are just sand dunes everywhere. right? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 66 «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» 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.
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# Test 13 · ★ · Deserts, rainforests and grasslands

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Ava reckons all deserts are just sand dunes everywhere. right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ava, deserts · **What happens:** reckon, be · **To what, where:** sand dunes

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 66 «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» 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/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t13:1
# text = Ava reckons all deserts are just sand dunes everywhere. right?
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	dunes	dune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
9	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
11	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present | Ava |  |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | all deserts | sand dunes |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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Yes, apart from the ones that are covered in ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t13:o1:1
# text = Yes, apart from the ones that are covered in ice
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	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 | **cover** | present · passive |  | the ones |  |  |  | in ice | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in ice=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Yes, every desert is covered in sand dunes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t13:o2:1
# text = Yes, every desert is covered in sand dunes
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dunes	dune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | present · passive |  | every desert |  |  |  | in sand dunes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in dune=Theme |

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

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No, most deserts are rocky or stony

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t13:o3:1
# text = No, most deserts are rocky or stony
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	stony	stony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | most deserts |  |  |  |  | rocky *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | most deserts *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, most deserts are covered in short grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t13:o4:1
# text = No, most deserts are covered in short grass
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | present · passive |  | most deserts |  |  |  | in short grass | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in grass=Theme |

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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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