Test 11 · ★ · Climate zones and why they are where they are

Which is true about where the Sun can stand straight overhead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sun · What happens: be, stand

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 21 «Climate zones and why they are where they are» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	9 stand	mark
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 stand	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sun	det
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 stand	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stand	aux
9	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 true	advcl
10	straight	straight	ADV	_	11 overhead	advmod
11	overhead	overhead	ADV	_	9 stand	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules
2	stand	can	the Sun					overhead property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Only in the temperate zones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 zones	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 zones	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 zones	det
4	temperate	temperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 zones	amod
5	zones	zone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Only at the North and South Poles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	7 Poles	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	7 Poles	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Poles	det
4	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Poles	compound
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 South	cc
6	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 North	conj
7	Poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Only between the two tropics

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	5 tropics	advmod
2	between	between	ADP	_	5 tropics	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tropics	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 tropics	nummod
5	tropics	tropic	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Everywhere on Earth in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 Earth	case
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Everywhere	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 summer	case
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Everywhere	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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