Test 4 · ★★ · Latin America and the Caribbean

What would happen if a visitor flew straight from the beach to La Paz and ran up a hill?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: visitor · What happens: happen, fly, run up · To what, where: beach, hill

This is test 4 · ★★ of lesson 14 «Latin America and the Caribbean» of the geography 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 flew	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 visitor	det
6	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	nsubj
7	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	11 beach	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 beach	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beach	det
11	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 La	case
13	La	La	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 beach	nmod
14	Paz	Paz	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 La	flat
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ran	cc
16	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flew	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 ran	compound:prt
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hill	det
19	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ran	obj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly a condition, not said to happen	past	a visitor		the beach to La	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from beach=Trajectory
3	run up	past	a visitor not said here	a hill		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hill=Trajectory

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

They would get warmer and warmer the higher up they went, as they near the Sun

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 warmer	cc
6	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 warmer	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 higher	det
8	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	parataxis
9	up	up	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 higher	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Sun	punct
13	as	as	ADP	_	17 Sun	case
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 near	nsubj
15	near	near	ADP	_	13 as	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Sun	det
17	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	They					as the Sun; warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as sun=Attribute
2	go	past	they						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They could feel short of breath, because the air holds less oxygen up high

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feel	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feel	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 breath	case
6	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 short	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 holds	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 holds	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 holds	nsubj
11	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	conj
12	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 oxygen	amod
13	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 holds	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	11 holds	compound:prt
15	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 holds	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	could	They					short property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	hold up	present	the air	less oxygen					vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot oxygen=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, the air is the same everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 same	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 air	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nothing	conj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 same	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 same	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					everywhere, same property	tree rules

Option 4

They would float a little, because the air up there is so much lighter

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 float	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 float	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lighter	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 lighter	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lighter	nsubj
10	up	up	ADV	_	11 there	advmod
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 air	advmod
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lighter	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADV	_	15 lighter	advmod
15	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 float	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	would	They	a little					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Agent
2	is	present	the air					light property	tree rules

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