Test 2 · ★★ · Mountains: life as you climb higher

we're goin up a 3000 m mountain, it's 20 degrees down here. how cold at the top roughly

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we, mountain · What happens: goin up, be · To what, where: m mountain, 20 degrees

This is test 2 · ★★ 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	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 goin	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goin	aux
3	goin	goin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 goin	compound:prt
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 mountain	det
6	3000	3000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 m	nummod
7	m	M	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mountain	compound
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goin	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 degrees	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 degrees	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 degrees	cop
12	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 degrees	nummod
13	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 goin	obl
14	down	down	ADV	_	15 here	advmod
15	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 degrees	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 cold	punct
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 cold	advmod
18	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goin	parataxis
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 top	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 top	det
21	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cold	obl
22	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	18 cold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	goin up	present · progressive	we	a m mountain					tree rules
2	is a	present	mountain	20 degrees		here			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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

About 20 degrees, the same as down here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 20	advmod
2	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 degrees	nummod
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 same	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 degrees	nmod:unmarked
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 down	case
8	down	down	ADV	_	6 same	obl
9	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 degrees	advmod

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

Option 2

About 40 degrees, as it's nearer the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 40	advmod
2	40	40	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 degrees	nummod
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nearer	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 nearer	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 nearer	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 nearer	cop
8	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 degrees	nmod:unmarked
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sun	det
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 nearer	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					near property	tree rules

Option 3

About minus 60 degrees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	3 60	advmod
2	minus	minus	ADV	_	3 60	advmod
3	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 degrees	nummod
4	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

About 0 degrees, losing about 6 to 7 for every 1000 m

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 0	advmod
2	0	0	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 degrees	nummod
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 losing	punct
5	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 degrees	acl
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 6	advmod
7	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 losing	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 7	case
9	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 6	nmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 m	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 m	det
12	1000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 m	nummod
13	m	M	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 losing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	gerund	0 degrees not said here	6				to 7; for every 1000 m	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 6=Eventuality

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