Test 1 · ★★ · Weather, storms and the changing climate

It snowed loads today so global warming is fake lol

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: It, global warming · What happens: snow, be · To what, where: loads

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 23 «Weather, storms and the changing climate» 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 snowed	nsubj
2	snowed	snow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 snowed	obj
4	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 snowed	obl:unmarked
5	so	so	ADV	_	9 fake	advmod
6	global	global	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 warming	amod
7	warming	warming	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fake	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fake	cop
9	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 snowed	parataxis
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 snowed	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snow	past	It	loads			today		tree rules
2	is	present	global warming					fake property	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

Yes, warming only means no snow ever, anywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 warming	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	warming	warm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 means	csubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 means	advmod
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 snow	det
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	obj
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 means	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 anywhere	punct
10	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 means	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm	gerund							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	mean	present	warming	no snow			ever	anywhere property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snow=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

One snowy day is weather; climate is the long average

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
2	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weather	compound
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 weather	cop
5	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 average	punct
7	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 average	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 average	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 average	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 average	amod
11	average	average	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weather	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		day weather					tree rules
2	is a	present	climate	the long average					tree rules

Option 3

No, snow is caused by warming every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 caused	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caused	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 caused	aux:pass
5	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	7 warming	mark
7	warming	warm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 caused	advcl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 warming	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	present · passive		snow					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	warm	gerund					day		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Yes, a big snowfall proves the planet is cooling down again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 proves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snowfall	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 snowfall	amod
5	snowfall	snowfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proves	nsubj
6	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 planet	det
8	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cooling	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cooling	aux
10	cooling	cool	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 proves	ccomp
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 cooling	compound:prt
12	again	again	ADV	_	10 cooling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	a big snowfall						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	cool down	present · progressive	the planet				again		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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