Test 10 · Climate zones

whats the diff between weather and climate

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗

This is test 10 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whats	what	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 diff	det
3	diff	diff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 whats	conj
4	between	between	ADP	_	5 weather	case
5	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 whats	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 climate	cc
7	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weather	conj

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Climate is today, and weather is the usual weather over many years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 today	cop
3	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Climate	nmod:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 weather	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 weather	cc
6	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 weather	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 weather	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 weather	det
9	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 weather	amod
10	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Climate	conj
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 years	case
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 years	amod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 weather	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		today					tree rules
2	is a	present	weather	the usual weather			year		tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Weather is now, climate is the usual weather over many years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 weather	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 weather	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 weather	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 now	punct
5	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 weather	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 weather	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 weather	det
8	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 weather	amod
9	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 years	case
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 years	amod
12	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 weather	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Weather	the usual weather			now; year		tree rules

Option 3

Weather is rain, climate is sunshine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rain	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rain	cop
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sunshine	punct
5	climate	climate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sunshine	compound
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sunshine	cop
7	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rain	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Weather	rain and climate sunshine					tree rules
2	is a	present	Weather not said here	climate sunshine					tree rules

Option 4

They mean exactly the same thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 thing	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	They	the same thing					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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