Test 2 · ★ · Deserts, rainforests and grasslands

Which is true about deserts?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 66 «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» 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	about	about	ADP	_	5 deserts	case
5	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about deserts; 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

Deserts get rain almost every day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obj
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 day	advmod
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 get	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Deserts	rain			day		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rain=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Every desert is hot and full of sand dunes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 desert	det
2	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hot	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 full	cc
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hot	conj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 dunes	case
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dunes	compound
9	dunes	dune	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	every desert					hot property	tree rules
2	be		every desert not said here					of sand dunes	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A desert is defined by very little rain, so it can be cold

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	4 defined	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 defined	aux:pass
4	defined	define	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 rain	case
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 little	advmod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rain	amod
8	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 defined	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cold	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	14 cold	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cold	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 cold	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 cold	cop
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 defined	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	define	present · passive	little rain	a desert					vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	is	can	desert					cold property	tree rules

Option 4

Nothing at all lives in deserts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 lives	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 lives	det
4	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nothing	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 deserts	case
6	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lives	nmod

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

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