Test 1 · ★★ · Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the…

Ruby's uncle: "Global warming's a hoax, mate, it snowed last week." Best answer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Global warming, uncle · What happens: be, snow · To what, where: hoax

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 79 «Worries and hopes: climate, the UN, space, AI, and is the world getting better?» of the history 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: Ruby's uncle: "Global warming's a hoax, mate, it snowed last week."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 uncle	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ruby	case
3	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 snowed	nsubj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 hoax	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 hoax	punct
6	Global	global	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 warming	amod
7	warming	warming	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hoax	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 hoax	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hoax	det
10	hoax	hoax	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uncle	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hoax	vocative
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 snowed	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 snowed	nsubj
15	snowed	snow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 week	amod
17	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 snowed	obl:unmarked
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 snowed	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 snowed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Global warming	a hoax				mate vocative	tree rules
2	snow in a quote	past	Ruby's uncle				week		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

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: Best answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 answer	amod
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 answer	punct

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

The options

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

One cold week is weather; the long-term climate is about 1.3 °C warmer

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 week	nummod
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 week	amod
3	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weather	compound
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 weather	cop
5	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 1.3	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 climate	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 term	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 long	punct
10	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 climate	compound
11	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 1.3	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 1.3	cop
13	about	about	ADV	_	14 1.3	advmod
14	1.3	1.3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 weather	acl:relcl
15	°	°	SYM	_	16 C	compound
16	C	C	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 1.3	nmod:unmarked
17	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 C	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		week weather					tree rules
2	is a	present	the term climate	1.3				° C nmod:unmarked; about property	tree rules

Option 2

Nobody has ever measured temperatures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 measured	nsubj
2	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 measured	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 measured	advmod
4	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	temperatures	temperature	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 measured	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	present · perfect	Nobody	temperatures			ever		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme temperature=Value

Option 3

He's right, mate: a week of snow proves the planet is not warming at all

The tree, 16 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	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 warming	mark
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	vocative
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 proves	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 proves	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 snow	case
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 week	nmod
11	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 warming	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 planet	det
13	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 warming	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 warming	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 warming	advmod
16	warming	warm	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 all	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 warming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	He		mate vocative; right property	tree rules
2	prove	present	a week of snow			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	not warm	present · progressive	the planet	all		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The Earth is getting colder every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Earth	det
2	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 getting	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 getting	aux
4	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 getting	xcomp
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 getting	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · progressive	the Earth				year	cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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