Test 2 · Population and cities

Why do so few people live in the Sahara?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: few people · What happens: live · To what, where: Sahara

This is test 2 of lesson 24 «Population and cities» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 few	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 few	aux
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 few	advmod
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 live	nsubj
6	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 Sahara	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sahara	det
9	Sahara	Sahara	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 live	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 live	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	few people			the Sahara			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sahara=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

There is too little water to farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 little	advmod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 farm	mark
7	farm	farm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 is	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	little water			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	farm	to-infinitive	little water not said here						vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is too cold at night for anyone

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	4 cold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cold	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cold	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 anyone	case
8	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 cold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				night	for anyone; cold property	tree rules

Option 3

It is against the law to live there

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	5 law	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 law	cop
3	against	against	ADP	_	5 law	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 law	det
5	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 live	mark
7	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 law	acl
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 live	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					against the law	tree rules
2	live	to-infinitive				there			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The sand is too hot to build on at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sand	det
2	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hot	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 hot	advmod
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 build	mark
7	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hot	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 build	compound:prt
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 build	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the sand					hot property	tree rules
2	build on	to-infinitive	the sand not said here			all			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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