Test 2 · ★ · Mountains and highlands

«snow on kilimanjaro?? it's in africa, it's boiling» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: snow, africa · What happens: be, boil · To what, where: africa, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 17 «Mountains and highlands» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 snow	punct
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 africa	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 kilimanjaro	case
4	kilimanjaro	kilimanjaro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 snow	nmod
5	??	??	PUNCT	_	2 snow	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 africa	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 africa	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 africa	case
9	africa	africa	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 boiling	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 boiling	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 boiling	aux
13	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 africa	acl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	13 boiling	punct
15	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 answer	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 answer	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 answer	det
18	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 answer	amod
19	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 africa	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 africa	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	snow on kilimanjaro		africa and the best answer	tree rules
2	boil in a quote	present · progressive	snow	africa and the best answer not said here		vn cooking-45.3 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument africa=Patient
3	be speech: assert	present	africa and the best answer	the best answer		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

Kilimanjaro is near the South Pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kilimanjaro	Kilimanjaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Pole	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Pole	cop
3	near	near	ADP	_	6 Pole	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Pole	det
5	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Pole	compound
6	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Kilimanjaro			the South Pole			tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Air gets much colder high up, so snow can lie on its summit near the equator

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 colder	advmod
4	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 gets	xcomp
5	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 up	advmod
6	up	up	ADV	_	4 colder	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lie	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 lie	advmod
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lie	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lie	aux
11	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gets	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 summit	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 summit	nmod:poss
14	summit	summit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lie	obl
15	near	near	ADP	_	17 equator	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 equator	det
17	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lie	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Air					cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	lie	can	snow			snow's summit		near the equator	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on summit=Location

Option 3

Africa has very cold summers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 summers	amod
5	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Africa				summer		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It is fake snow made by machines every night for the tourists who come to climb it

The tree, 17 words

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	4 snow	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 snow	cop
3	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snow	amod
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 snow	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 machines	case
7	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl:agent
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl:unmarked
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 tourists	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tourists	det
12	tourists	tourist	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 come	nsubj
14	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tourists	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 climb	mark
16	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 climb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	fake snow			tree rules
2	make	participle		fake snow not said here	night	for the tourists	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for tourist=Asset
3	come	present	the tourists				tree rules
4	climb	to-infinitive	the tourists not said here	snow			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme

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