Test 11 · ★★ · Weather, storms and the changing climate

Which places are especially at risk as the sea rises?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: places, sea · What happens: be, rise · To what, where: risk

This is test 11 · ★★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 places	det
2	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 risk	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 risk	cop
4	especially	especially	ADV	_	6 risk	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 risk	case
6	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 rises	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rises	nsubj
10	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 risk	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 risk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which places			risk		especially property	tree rules
2	rise	present	the sea						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

Every place on Earth exactly equally

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 place	det
2	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 Earth	case
4	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 place	nmod
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 equally	advmod
6	equally	equally	ADV	_	2 place	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Netherlands, Bangladesh and islands like Tuvalu

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Netherlands	det
2	Netherlands	Netherlands	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Bangladesh	punct
4	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Netherlands	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 islands	cc
6	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Netherlands	conj
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 Tuvalu	case
8	Tuvalu	Tuvalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 islands	nmod

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

Option 3

Deserts far from the sea, like the middle of the Sahara

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 sea	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Deserts	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 middle	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Deserts	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Sahara	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sahara	det
12	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 middle	nmod

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

Option 4

High mountain valleys such as those in the Alps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 valleys	amod
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 valleys	compound
3	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	6 those	case
5	as	as	ADP	_	4 such	fixed
6	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 valleys	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 Alps	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Alps	det
9	Alps	Alp	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 those	nmod

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

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