Test 3 · ★★ · Mountains: life as you climb higher

Tom says it's colder on mountains because they are further from the Sun. Is he right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom, it, mountains · What happens: say, be · To what, where: mountains · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 colder	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 colder	cop
5	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 says	ccomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 mountains	case
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 colder	obl
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 right	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 right	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
11	further	further	ADV	_	17 right	advmod
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 Sun.	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sun.	det
14	Sun.	Sunday	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 right	obl
15	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 right	cop
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 right	nsubj
17	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 colder	advcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Tom				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it	mountains		cold property	tree rules
3	is	present	mountains = mountain		sunday	further, right property	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

No, mountains are actually warmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 mountains	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 warmer	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 warmer	cop
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 warmer	advmod
6	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes, the Sun cannot reach mountain tops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 reach	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Sun	det
4	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 reach	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 reach	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 reach	advmod
7	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tops	compound
9	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	can	the Sun	mountain tops					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, the thin rising air cools, and a few kilometres are nothing next to the Sun's distance

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 cools	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 air	amod
5	rising	rising	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 air	compound
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cools	nsubj
7	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 nothing	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 nothing	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 kilometres	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kilometres	amod
12	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 nothing	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 nothing	cop
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 cools	obj
15	next	next	ADV	_	14 nothing	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	20 distance	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Sun	det
18	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 distance	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Sun	case
20	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 next	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	present	the thin rising air						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present	a few kilometres	nothing				next property	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, every metre nearer the Sun is warmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 nearer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 metre	det
4	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nearer	obl:unmarked
5	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sun	det
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 warmer	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 warmer	cop
9	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 nearer	conj

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

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