Test 4 · ★★★ · Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts
A wet wind blows from the sea over a high mountain range. Where will the green forests most likely be?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wet wind · What happens: blow
This is test 4 · ★★★ 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 wet wind blows from the sea over a high mountain range.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wind | det |
| 2 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wind | amod |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blows | nsubj |
| 4 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blows | obl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 range | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 range | det |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 range | amod |
| 11 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 range | compound |
| 12 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blows | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present | a wet wind | over a high mountain range; from the sea | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from sea=Co-Patient |
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: Where will the green forests most likely be?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forests | det |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 forests | amod |
| 5 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 likely | advmod |
| 7 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 8 be | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 forests | acl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
On the far, dry side of the range
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 side | det |
| 3 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 side | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 far | punct |
| 5 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 side | amod |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 range | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 range | det |
| 9 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 side | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Only on the very top of the mountains
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 top | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 top | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 top | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 top | advmod |
| 5 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mountains | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountains | det |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 top | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Equally on both sides
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Equally | equally | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 sides | case |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 sides | det |
| 4 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Equally | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
On the slope facing the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 slope | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 slope | det |
| 3 | slope | slope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 slope | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 facing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | face | gerund | the slope not said here | the sea | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/50-why-the-earth-is-so/t4/