Test 7 · Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese,…

«why's it so hard to breathe up here, the air's still there innit» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, air · What happens: be, innit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 of lesson 183 «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 breathe	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 breathe	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 breathe	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 breathe	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 breathe	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 breathe	mark
8	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 right	csubj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 breathe	compound:prt
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 breathe	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 innit	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 air	det
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 innit	nsubj
14	's	's	PART	_	13 air	case
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 there	advmod
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 innit	advmod
17	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 breathe	conj
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 breathe	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 right	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 right	cop
21	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	it	here	breathe, hard property	tree rules
2	innit in a quote	infinitive	the air	there		tree rules
3	is	present			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

The air is too hot to breathe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hot	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 hot	advmod
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 breathe	mark
7	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hot	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the air					hot property	tree rules
2	breathe	to-infinitive	the air not said here						vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Mountains have more oxygen than the beach

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 oxygen	amod
4	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 beach	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beach	det
7	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Mountains	more oxygen				than the beach	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The air is thinner high up, so each breath holds less oxygen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thinner	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thinner	cop
4	thinner	thin	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thinner	advmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	5 high	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 holds	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 holds	advmod
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 breath	det
10	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 holds	nsubj
11	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thinner	conj
12	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 oxygen	amod
13	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 holds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the air					thin property	tree rules
2	hold	present	each breath	less oxygen					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme

Option 4

There is no air at all on mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 is	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 mountains	case
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no air			all; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at all=Location

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