Test 11 · ★★ · Mountains: life as you climb higher

If summers in the mountains get warmer year after year, what may happen to the treeline?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: summers · What happens: get, happen

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Mountains: life as you climb higher» of the biology 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 get	mark
2	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 mountains	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mountains	det
5	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 summers	nmod
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 happen	advcl
7	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 year	amod
8	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl:unmarked
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 year	case
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 happen	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 happen	aux
14	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 treeline	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 treeline	det
17	treeline	treeline	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 happen	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get a condition, not said to happen	present	summers in the mountains				year		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	happen	may						to the treeline	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

It may creep higher up the mountain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 creep	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 creep	aux
3	creep	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	higher	high	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 creep	advmod
5	up	up	ADP	_	7 mountain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountain	det
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 creep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	may	It			the mountain		high property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up mountain=Trajectory

Option 2

It will drop down to the valley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drop	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 drop	aux
3	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 drop	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 valley	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 valley	det
7	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop down	future	It			the valley		down property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to valley=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

All the trees will vanish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 trees	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 vanish	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 vanish	aux
5	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	future	all trees						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It will stay exactly where it is now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stay	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 where	advmod
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 stay	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 where	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 where	cop
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	future	It				now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	it					exactly, where property	tree rules

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