Test 12 · Climate: hot summers and hot arguments

What would it mean if, after a record hot day, it was cold all next week?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: mean, be

This is test 12 of lesson 21 «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments» of the politics 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 cold	mark
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 if	punct
7	after	after	ADP	_	11 day	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
9	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 day	compound
10	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cold	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 day	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 cold	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cold	cop
15	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 week	amod
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 next	advmod
17	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cold	conj
18	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mean	obl:unmarked
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	mean	would	it	week		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	it	day	cold property	tree rules
3	be				all 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It would prove that the climate was cooling fast, all over the world

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	3 prove	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 prove	aux
3	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 cooling	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 climate	det
6	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cooling	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cooling	aux
8	cooling	cool	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 prove	ccomp
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 cooling	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 world	punct
11	all	all	ADV	_	14 world	advmod
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 world	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 world	det
14	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 prove	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	would	It			the world			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	cool	past · progressive	the climate					fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It would mean the record was fake

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	3 mean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 record	det
5	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fake	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fake	cop
7	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mean	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	would	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the record					fake property	tree rules

Option 3

It would mean summer was cancelled

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	3 mean	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cancelled	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cancelled	aux:pass
6	cancelled	cancel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 mean	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	would	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cancel	past · passive		summer					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It would still be weather; climate is the average over many years

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 weather	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 weather	aux
3	still	still	ADV	_	5 weather	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 weather	cop
5	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 average	punct
7	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 average	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 average	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 average	det
10	average	average	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weather	nmod
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 years	case
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 years	amod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 average	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	would	It	weather			still		tree rules
2	is a	present	climate	the average			year		tree rules

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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