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Test 4 · Climate zones

Two towns are equally far from the equator; one is on the coast and one is far inland. Which usually has colder winters?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two towns, one · What happens: be, have · To what, where: equator, coast

This is test 4 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: Two towns are equally far from the equator; one is on the coast and one is far inland.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 towns	nummod
2	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 far	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 far	cop
4	equally	equally	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 equator	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 equator	det
8	equator	equator	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 far	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 coast	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 coast	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 coast	cop
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 coast	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 coast	det
14	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 far	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 inland	cc
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 inland	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 inland	cop
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 inland	advmod
19	inland	inland	ADV	_	5 far	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 far	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Two towns			the equator		equally, far property	tree rules
2	is	present	one			the coast			tree rules
3	is	present	one					far, inland 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.

Sentence 2: Which usually has colder winters?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 has	obj
2	usually	usually	ADV	_	3 has	advmod
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 winters	amod
5	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present					winter	usually property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The town on the coast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 town	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 coast	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coast	det
5	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 town	nmod

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

Option 2

The one with more trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 trees	case
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 trees	amod
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod

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

Option 3

They must have the same winters

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	3 have	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 winters	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 winters	amod
6	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	must	They				winter		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The town far inland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 town	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 inland	advmod
4	inland	inland	ADV	_	2 town	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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