Test 2 · ★★★ · Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts
A climber starts at 1,000 metres where it is 20 degrees, and climbs to 3,000 metres. About what temperature should she expect?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: climber, she · What happens: start, be, climb, expect · To what, where: 1,000 metres, 20 degrees, 3,000 metres
This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 50 «Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts» 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 climber starts at 1,000 metres where it is 20 degrees, and climbs to 3,000 metres.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 climber | det |
| 2 | climber | climber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 starts | nsubj |
| 3 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 metres | case |
| 5 | 1,000 | 1000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 metres | nummod |
| 6 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 starts | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 degrees | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 degrees | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 degrees | cop |
| 10 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 degrees | nummod |
| 11 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 metres | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 climbs | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 climbs | cc |
| 14 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 starts | conj |
| 15 | to | too | ADV | Typo=Yes | 16 3,000 | advmod |
| 16 | 3,000 | 3000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 metres | nummod |
| 17 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 climbs | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 starts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | present | a climber | 1,000 metres | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | climber | 20 degrees | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | climb | present | a climber not said here | 3,000 metres | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location metre=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.
Sentence 2: About what temperature should she expect?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADP | _ | 3 temperature | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 temperature | nsubj |
| 3 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 expect | obl |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 expect | aux |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 expect | nsubj |
| 6 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 expect | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | should | she | about temperature | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
About 26 degrees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 26 | advmod |
| 2 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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 2 · ✓ the right answer
About 8 degrees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 8 | advmod |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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
About 0 degrees exactly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 0 | advmod |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 degrees | nummod |
| 3 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 3 degrees | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 18 degrees
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 18 | advmod |
| 2 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit 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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