Test 1 · Climate zones
A traveller goes from the equator to the North Pole. What does she find on the way?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: traveller · What happens: go, find · To what, where: North Pole, equator, way
This is test 1 of lesson 16 «Climate zones» of the world 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: A traveller goes from the equator to the North Pole.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 traveller | det |
| 2 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 equator | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 equator | det |
| 6 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Pole | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Pole | det |
| 9 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Pole | compound |
| 10 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | a traveller | the North Pole | the equator | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from equator=Initial_Location to pole=Destination |
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: What does she find on the way?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 find | obj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 way | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · do-support | traveller | the way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
Icy lands all the way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lands | amod |
| 2 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 way | det:predet |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lands | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Hot lands, then lands with four seasons, then icy lands
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lands | amod |
| 2 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lands | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lands | advmod |
| 5 | lands | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lands | acl:relcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 seasons | case |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 seasons | nummod |
| 8 | seasons | season | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lands | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lands | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 lands | advmod |
| 11 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lands | amod |
| 12 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lands | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | present | Hot lands and icy lands not said here | then; season | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Lands that get hotter and hotter the farther north she travels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 travels | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lands | acl:relcl |
| 4 | hotter | hot | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 get | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 hotter | cc |
| 6 | hotter | hot | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 hotter | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 farther | det |
| 8 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 get | advmod |
| 9 | north | north | ADV | _ | 8 farther | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 travels | nsubj |
| 11 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Lands | far, hot property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | travel | present | Lands | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The same climate everywhere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 climate | det |
| 2 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 climate | amod |
| 3 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 climate | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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