Exam question 2 · Mountains: life as you climb higher

Ascertain the approximate decrease in air temperature that accompanies an ascent of one thousand metres.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, air temperature · What happens: ascertain, accompany · To what, where: approximate decrease, air temperature, ascent

This is exam question 2 of lesson 13 «Mountains: life as you climb higher» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 decrease	det
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 decrease	amod
4	decrease	decrease	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 temperature	case
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 temperature	compound
7	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 decrease	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 accompanies	nsubj
9	accompanies	accompany	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 temperature	acl:relcl
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ascent	det
11	ascent	ascent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 accompanies	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 metres	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 thousand	compound
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 metres	nummod
15	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ascent	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the approximate decrease		air temperature			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decrease=Topic
2	accompany	present	air temperature	a ascent of thousand metres					vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ascent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Approximately six to seven degrees Celsius

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 six	advmod
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 degrees	nummod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 seven	case
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 six	nmod
5	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 degrees	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 2

Approximately thirty degrees Celsius

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 thirty	advmod
2	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 degrees	nummod
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 degrees	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 3

The temperature increases rather than decreases

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 temperature	det
2	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 increases	nsubj
3	increases	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	6 decreases	cc
5	than	than	ADP	_	4 rather	fixed
6	decreases	decrease	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 increases	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	increase	present	the temperature						vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Approximately one degree Celsius

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	_	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 degree	nummod
3	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	Celsius	Celsius	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 degree	appos

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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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