Test 11 · Climate zones

how come there's snow on mountains near the equator

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: come, be · To what, where: mountains

This is test 11 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 come	advmod
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 's	expl
4	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 come	ccomp
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	vocative
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 mountains	case
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	obl
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 equator	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 equator	det
10	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present				mountains		near the equator; snow vocative	tree rules
2	be	present				there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Snow falls only near the equator

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 falls	nsubj
2	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 equator	advmod
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 equator	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 equator	det
6	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 falls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	Snow			the equator			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near equator=Location

Option 2

Mountains make their own ice inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ice	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ice	amod
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
6	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 make	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Mountains	Mountains's own ice				inside property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ice=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The air gets colder the higher you climb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 gets	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 higher	det
6	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 gets	advcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 climb	nsubj
8	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 higher	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the air					cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	climb	present	you						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The mountains are closer to the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mountains	det
2	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 closer	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 closer	cop
4	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Moon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Moon	det
7	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 closer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the mountains					to the Moon; close property	tree rules

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