Exam question 2 · Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts
State the approximate fall in air temperature for every thousand metres of ascent.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗
This is exam question 2 of lesson 50 «Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | State | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fall | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fall | det |
| 3 | approximate | approximate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fall | amod |
| 4 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 temperature | case |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 temperature | compound |
| 7 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fall | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 metres | case |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 thousand | det |
| 10 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 metres | nummod |
| 11 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 temperature | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ascent | case |
| 13 | ascent | ascent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 metres | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fall | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
It does not fall at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fall | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fall | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 fall | advmod |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 fall | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fall | present · do-support | It | all | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Approximately six degrees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 2 six | advmod |
| 2 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 degrees | nummod |
| 3 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Approximately one degree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 3 degree | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 degree | nummod |
| 3 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Approximately sixty degrees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Approximately | approximately | ADV | _ | 2 sixty | advmod |
| 2 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 degrees | nummod |
| 3 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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