Test 5 · ★★★ · Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

Wherever there is water nearby, rain falls often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	3 is	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 falls	advcl
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
5	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	3 is	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 falls	nsubj
8	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	often	often	ADV	_	8 falls	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	water			there		nearby, wherever property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	present	rain					often property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

A desert must always be hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 desert	det
2	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hot	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hot	aux
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 hot	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hot	cop
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	must	a desert					always, hot property	tree rules

Option 3

Deserts are found only far from the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 found	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 found	aux:pass
3	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 found	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present · passive		Deserts		the sea		far property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from sea=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A place can be a desert even if it lies right beside an ocean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 place	det
2	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lies	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 desert	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 desert	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 desert	det
6	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 place	appos
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 lies	advmod
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 lies	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lies	nsubj
10	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	right	right	ADV	_	10 lies	advmod
12	beside	beside	ADP	_	14 ocean	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ocean	det
14	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	can		a desert					tree rules
2	lie	present	a place			a ocean		right property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside ocean=Location

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