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Test 4 · ★ · Climate zones and why they are where they are

Olives grow in Spain but nobody farms them in Scotland. Why?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Olives · What happens: grow · To what, where: nobody farms, Spain

This is test 4 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Olives grow in Spain but nobody farms them in Scotland.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Spain	case
4	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 farms	cc
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 farms	compound
7	farms	farm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 farms	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Scotland	case
10	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grow	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Olives	nobody farms		Spain		in Scotland	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spain=Location

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.

Sentence 2: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Olives only grow near the equator, not in Europe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 grow	advmod
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 equator	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 equator	det
6	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Europe	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 Europe	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 Europe	case
10	Europe	Europe	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Olives			the equator		in Europe	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near equator=Location

Option 2

Scottish soil has no water for olive roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 soil	amod
2	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 roots	case
7	olive	olive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 roots	amod
8	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Scottish soil	no water				for olive roots	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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

Olives need hot, dry summers and mild winters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Olives	olive	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 summers	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hot	punct
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 summers	amod
6	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 winters	cc
8	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 winters	amod
9	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 summers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Olives				summer		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

Scotland is far too sunny and dry for olive trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sunny	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sunny	cop
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 sunny	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 sunny	advmod
5	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 dry	cc
7	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sunny	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 trees	case
9	olive	olive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trees	compound
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sunny	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Scotland					for olive trees; far, sunny property	tree rules
2	be		Scotland not said here						tree rules

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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