Test 9 · Climate zones

Which best describes the temperate zone?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: describe · To what, where: temperate zone

This is test 9 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 describes	nsubj
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 describes	amod
3	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 zone	det
5	temperate	temperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 zone	amod
6	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 describes	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present		the temperate zone					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent zone=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

Hot and dry all year round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 year	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 dry	cc
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hot	conj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	round	round	ADV	_	5 year	advmod

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

Option 2

Frozen all year round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 year	det
3	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Frozen	obl:unmarked
4	round	round	ADV	_	1 Frozen	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	participle					year	round property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

Warm summers, cold winters and four seasons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 summers	amod
2	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 winters	punct
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 winters	amod
5	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 summers	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 seasons	cc
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 seasons	nummod
8	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 summers	conj

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

Option 4

Hot and wet all year round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 year	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 wet	cc
3	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hot	conj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	round	round	ADV	_	5 year	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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