Test 8 · The United States and its states
A girl in Arizona sees cacti and very little rain all year. In which region does she live?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl · What happens: see, live · To what, where: cacti, region
This is test 8 of lesson 44 «The United States and its states» 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 girl in Arizona sees cacti and very little rain all year.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sees | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Arizona | case |
| 4 | Arizona | Arizona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | cacti | cactus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sees | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rain | cc |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 little | advmod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rain | amod |
| 10 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cacti | conj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 year | det |
| 12 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sees | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sees | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | a girl in Arizona | cacti and little rain | year | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cactus=Stimulus |
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: In which region does she live?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 region | case |
| 2 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 3 region | det |
| 3 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obl |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 live | aux |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 live | nsubj |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 live | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · do-support | girl | which region | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in region=Location |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The snowy North-east
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 east | det |
| 2 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 east | amod |
| 3 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 east | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 North | punct |
| 5 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Great Lakes region
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lakes | det |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Lakes | amod |
| 3 | Lakes | Lake | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Lakes | flat |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The rainy Pacific North-west
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pacific | det |
| 2 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Pacific | amod |
| 3 | Pacific | Pacific | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Pacific | flat |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 west | punct |
| 6 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Pacific | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The desert Southwest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 desert | det |
| 2 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | Southwest | Southwest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 desert | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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