Test 9 · Deserts

«why does the sand burn my feet when the air's not even that hot» Which is the best answer?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sand, air · What happens: burn, not be, be · To what, where: feet, best answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 18 «Deserts» 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	_	6 burn	punct
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 burn	advmod
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 burn	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sand	det
5	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burn	nsubj
6	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 answer	csubj
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 feet	nmod:poss
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 burn	obj
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 hot	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 air	det
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hot	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 hot	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 hot	advmod
14	even	even	ADV	_	16 hot	advmod
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 hot	nsubj
16	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 burn	advcl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 burn	punct
18	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 answer	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 answer	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 answer	det
21	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 answer	amod
22	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	burn in a quote	present · do-support	the sand	my feet		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
2	not is in a quote	present	the air		hot property	tree rules
3	be speech: assert	present		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

The air is actually hotter than the sand

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 hotter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hotter	cop
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 hotter	advmod
5	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 sand	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sand	det
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hotter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the air					than the sand; actually, hot property	tree rules

Option 2

The sand makes its own fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sand	det
2	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fire	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fire	amod
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the sand	sand's own fire					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product
2	fire		sand						nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The ground soaks up sunlight and gets much hotter than the air above

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ground	det
2	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soaks	nsubj
3	soaks	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 soaks	compound:prt
5	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soaks	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gets	cc
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 soaks	conj
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 hotter	advmod
9	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 gets	xcomp
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 air	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 air	det
12	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hotter	obl
13	above	above	ADV	_	12 air	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	soak up	present	the ground	sunlight					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sunlight=Source
2	get	present	the ground not said here					hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Feet are colder than the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 colder	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 colder	cop
3	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 colder	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Feet					than the air; cold property	tree rules

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