Exam question 3 · Climate zones

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning deserts.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response · What happens: select, be, establish · To what, where: response

This is exam question 3 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 deserts	amod
12	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 facts	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with the established facts and concerning deserts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

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

A desert is invariably hot and sandy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 desert	det
2	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hot	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	cop
4	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	5 hot	advmod
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sandy	cc
7	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a desert					hot, invariably property	tree rules
2	be		a desert not said here						tree rules

Option 2

A desert is any region devoid of animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 desert	det
2	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 region	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 region	cop
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 region	det
5	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	devoid	devoid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 region	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 animals	case
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 devoid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a desert	any region					tree rules

Option 3

A desert is any region lying upon the equator

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 desert	det
2	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 region	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 region	cop
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 region	det
5	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 region	acl
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 equator	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 equator	det
9	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a desert	any region					tree rules
2	lie	gerund	any region not said here			the equator			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon equator=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A desert is defined by scarcity of precipitation, and may be hot or cold

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 desert	det
2	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 defined	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 defined	aux:pass
4	defined	define	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 scarcity	case
6	scarcity	scarcity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 defined	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 precipitation	case
8	precipitation	precipitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scarcity	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hot	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hot	cc
11	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hot	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 hot	cop
13	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 defined	conj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 cold	cc
15	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	define	present · passive	scarcity of precipitation	a desert		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	is	may	scarcity of precipitation not said here		hot property	tree rules
3	be		scarcity of precipitation not said here			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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