Test 4 · ★ · Mountains and highlands

What would happen to the temperature if you climbed 3,000 metres up from a beach at 25 degrees?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, climb · To what, where: beach

This is test 4 · ★ 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	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	to	to	ADP	_	6 temperature	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 temperature	det
6	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 climbed	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 climbed	nsubj
9	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	3,000	3000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 metres	nummod
11	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 up	obl:unmarked
12	up	up	ADV	_	9 climbed	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 beach	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 beach	det
15	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 climbed	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 degrees	case
17	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 degrees	nummod
18	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 climbed	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to the temperature	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	climb a condition, not said to happen	past	you			a beach		at 25 degrees	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from beach=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

It would be about 20 degrees warmer, being closer to the Sun

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	7 warmer	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 warmer	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 warmer	cop
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 20	advmod
5	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 degrees	nummod
6	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 warmer	obl:unmarked
7	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 closer	punct
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 closer	cop
10	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 warmer	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Sun	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Sun	det
13	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 closer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					20 degrees obl:unmarked; warm property	tree rules
2	is	gerund						to the Sun; close property	tree rules

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

It would be roughly 20 degrees colder at the top

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	7 colder	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 colder	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 colder	cop
4	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	5 20	advmod
5	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 degrees	nummod
6	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 colder	obl:unmarked
7	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 top	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 top	det
10	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 colder	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It			the top		20 degrees obl:unmarked; cold property	tree rules

Option 3

It would stay at 25 degrees

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	3 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 degrees	case
5	25	25	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 degrees	nummod
6	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	It			25 degrees			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at degree=Location

Option 4

It would be 3,000 degrees colder

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	5 degrees	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 degrees	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 degrees	cop
4	3,000	3000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 degrees	nummod
5	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 degrees	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	It	3,000 degrees				colder nmod:unmarked	tree rules

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