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Test 7 · ★★ · Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands

Snow falls on a high mountain each winter, but every summer all of it melts. Will a glacier form there?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Snow, summer · What happens: fall, melt · To what, where: high mountain

This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 65 «Glaciers, ice ages and polar lands» 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: Snow falls on a high mountain each winter, but every summer all of it melts.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 falls	nsubj
2	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 mountain	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mountain	det
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mountain	amod
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 falls	obl
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 winter	det
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 falls	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 melts	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 melts	cc
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 summer	det
12	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 melts	nsubj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 melts	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 all	nmod
16	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 falls	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 falls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	Snow			a high mountain	winter		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on mountain=Location
2	melt	present	every summer						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: Will a glacier form there?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 form	aux
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 form	det
3	glacier	glacier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 form	compound
4	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 form	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 form	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

Yes, as long as the mountain is high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 long	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 high	advmod
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 mountain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountain	det
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 long	obl
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 high	cop
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, because the snow must pile up year after year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 pile	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pile	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 pile	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snow	det
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pile	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 pile	aux
7	pile	pile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 pile	compound:prt
9	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pile	obl:unmarked
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 year	case
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pile	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pile up	must	the snow				year		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, because glaciers form only in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 form	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 form	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 form	mark
4	glaciers	glacier	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 form	nsubj
5	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 sea	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 form	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	present	glaciers	the sea					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sea=Theme

Option 4

Yes, because snow falls every winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 falls	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 falls	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 falls	mark
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 falls	nsubj
5	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 winter	det
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 falls	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	snow				winter		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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