Test 9 · ★★ · Weather, storms and the changing climate
In the game winter is just a season. What did real people of the Little Ice Age face?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, do · To what, where: season, real people
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: In the game winter is just a season.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 winter | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 winter | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 winter | compound |
| 4 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 season | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 season | cop |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 season | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 season | det |
| 8 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 season | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a season | winter | 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: What did real people of the Little Ice Age face?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 people | amod |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 did | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 face | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 face | det |
| 7 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Age | amod |
| 8 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Age | compound |
| 9 | Age | Age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 face | compound |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 people | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | real people of the Age face | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Hot summers every single year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 summers | amod |
| 2 | summers | summer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 year | det |
| 4 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 year | amod |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 summers | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Colder winters and failed harvests in many years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colder | cold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 winters | amod |
| 2 | winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 harvests | cc |
| 4 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 harvests | amod |
| 5 | harvests | harvest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 winters | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 years | amod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 winters | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Ice covering the whole of Europe all year, so nobody could farm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | covering | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Ice | acl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 whole | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 covering | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Europe | case |
| 6 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 whole | obl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 year | det |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whole | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 farm | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 farm | advmod |
| 11 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 farm | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 farm | aux |
| 13 | farm | farm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Ice | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | gerund | Ice not said here | the whole | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme whole=Destination | ||||
| 2 | farm | could | nobody | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Exactly the same weather as today
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 4 weather | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 weather | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weather | amod |
| 4 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 today | case |
| 6 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weather | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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