Test 6 · ★ · The British Isles and the United Kingdom

Why does London have mild winters, while Labrador at the same latitude freezes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: London, Labrador · What happens: have, freeze

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 8 «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» 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 have	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 winters	amod
6	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 freezes	punct
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 freezes	mark
9	Labrador	Labrador	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 freezes	nsubj
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 latitude	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 latitude	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 latitude	amod
13	latitude	latitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Labrador	nmod
14	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	London				winter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	freeze	present	Labrador at the same latitude						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Labrador is higher up in the mountains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Labrador	labrador	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 higher	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 higher	aux:pass
3	higher	high	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 higher	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 mountains	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountains	det
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 higher	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	high up	present · passive		Labrador		the mountains			tree rules

Option 2

London gets more hours of winter sun than anywhere else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 hours	amod
4	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gets	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sun	case
6	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sun	compound
7	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hours	nmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 anywhere	case
9	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 gets	advmod
10	else	else	ADV	_	9 anywhere	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	London				hour	anywhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Britain has more volcanoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 volcanoes	amod
4	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Britain	more volcanoes					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent volcano=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Warm Atlantic water and westerly winds warm Britain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 water	amod
2	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 water	compound
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 warm	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 winds	cc
5	westerly	westerly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 winds	amod
6	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 water	conj
7	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 warm	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm	present	Warm Atlantic water and westerly winds	Britain					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent britain=Patient

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