Test 4 · ★★ · Weather, storms and the changing climate

Dad says the greenhouse effect is pure evil and we'd be better off without it. Put him right.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad, greenhouse effect, we, you · What happens: say, be, put · To what, where: Dad · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: Dad says the greenhouse effect is pure evil and we'd be better off without it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 effect	det
4	greenhouse	greenhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 effect	compound
5	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 evil	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 evil	cop
7	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 evil	amod
8	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 better	cc
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 better	nsubj
11	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 better	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 better	cop
13	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 evil	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 better	compound:prt
15	without	without	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 better	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Dad		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the greenhouse effect	evil property	tree rules
3	is	would	we	without effect; good 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.

Sentence 2: Put him right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Put	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		Dad			right property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He is right, it only harms the planet and does nothing good for us

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 harms	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 harms	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 harms	advmod
7	harms	harm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 planet	det
9	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 harms	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 does	cc
11	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 harms	conj
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 does	obj
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nothing	amod
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 us	case
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 does	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	He		right property	tree rules
2	harm	present	it	the planet		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus planet=Experiencer
3	do	present		nothing	for us	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Without it Earth would be about minus 18 degrees and frozen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Without	without	ADP	_	2 it	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 degrees	obl
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 degrees	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 degrees	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 degrees	cop
6	about	about	ADV	_	8 18	advmod
7	minus	minus	ADV	_	8 18	advmod
8	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 degrees	nummod
9	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 frozen	cc
11	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 degrees	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	Earth	18 degrees				without it	tree rules
2	freeze	participle	Earth not said here						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Without it Earth would be much hotter, like the planet Venus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Without	without	SCONJ	_	7 hotter	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hotter	nsubj
3	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hotter	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hotter	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 hotter	cop
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 hotter	advmod
7	hotter	hot	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Venus	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	12 Venus	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Venus	det
11	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Venus	compound
12	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 hotter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	it					hot property	tree rules

Option 4

It has nothing at all to do with Earth's temperature

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 has	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 nothing	nmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 do	mark
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 nothing	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 temperature	case
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 temperature	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Earth	case
11	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	nothing		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive		nothing not said here				with Earth's temperature	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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