Exam question 1 · Climate zones
Which of the following statements most accurately characterises climate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: climate
This is exam question 1 of lesson 16 «Climate zones» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 characterises | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 statements | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 statements | det |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 statements | amod |
| 5 | statements | statement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 characterises | obl |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 accurately | advmod |
| 7 | accurately | accurately | ADV | _ | 8 characterises | advmod |
| 8 | characterises | characteris | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 characterises | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 characterises | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | characteris | present | climate | of the following statements; accurately 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
The quantity of rain in a single storm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 quantity | det |
| 2 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 rain | case |
| 4 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 quantity | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 storm | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 storm | det |
| 7 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 storm | amod |
| 8 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 quantity | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The usual weather of a place over many years
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 weather | det |
| 2 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 weather | amod |
| 3 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 weather | nmod |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 years | amod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 place | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weather | a place over many years | nom weather «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3
The temperature recorded on a given day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 temperature | det |
| 2 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 temperature | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recorded | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | record | participle | the temperature not said here | day | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
The state of the air at a given moment
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 state | det |
| 2 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 air | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 air | det |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 state | nmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 moment | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 moment | det |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 moment | amod |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 state | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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