Test 5 · ★ · Mountains and highlands

«why is one side of the mountains green and the other side all dry» What is the reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: green · What happens: be · To what, where: reason

This is test 5 · ★ 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	_	9 green	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 green	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 green	cop
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 side	nummod
5	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 green	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 mountains	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mountains	det
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 side	nmod
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 reason	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 side	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 side	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 side	amod
13	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 green	conj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 dry	det
15	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 green	advcl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	9 green	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 reason	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 reason	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 reason	det
20	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present						one side of the mountains obl; green property	tree rules
2	is a	present	green and the other side	the reason					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 dry side is always higher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 side	det
2	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 side	amod
3	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 higher	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 higher	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 higher	advmod
6	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the dry side					always, high property	tree rules

Option 2

Animals eat all the plants on one side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 plants	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 plants	det
5	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 side	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 side	nummod
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Animals	all plants		one side			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Moist air rises and drops rain on the windward side, leaving a rain shadow behind

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moist	moist	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 air	amod
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rises	nsubj
3	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 drops	cc
5	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rises	conj
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drops	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 side	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 side	det
9	windward	windward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 side	amod
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drops	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 leaving	punct
12	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 rises	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 shadow	det
14	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shadow	compound
15	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 leaving	obj
16	behind	behind	ADV	_	12 leaving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	present	Moist air				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drop	present	Moist air not said here	rain	the windward side		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rain=Theme on side=Destination
3	leave	gerund	Moist air not said here	a rain shadow		behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme

Option 4

The Sun shines only on one side, so the plants on the other side can never grow

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sun	det
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 shines	nsubj
3	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 side	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 side	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 side	nummod
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shines	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grow	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	18 grow	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plants	det
11	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 grow	nsubj
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 side	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 side	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 side	amod
15	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plants	nmod
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 grow	aux
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 grow	advmod
18	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 shines	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	present	the Sun			one side			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location
2	not grow	can	the plants on the other side						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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