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Test 7 · ★ · Deserts, rainforests and grasslands

Two places are equally warm, but one gets 2,000 millimetres of rain a year and the other 100. Which is more likely a desert?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two places, one · What happens: be, get · To what, where: 2,000 millimetres

This is test 7 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Two places are equally warm, but one gets 2,000 millimetres of rain a year and the other 100.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 places	nummod
2	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 warm	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 warm	cop
4	equally	equally	ADV	_	5 warm	advmod
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gets	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 gets	cc
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 gets	nsubj
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 warm	advcl
10	2,000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 millimetres	nummod
11	millimetres	millimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gets	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 rain	case
13	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 millimetres	nmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 year	det
15	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gets	obl:unmarked
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 100	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 100	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 100	amod
19	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 year	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 warm	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Two places					equally, warm property	tree rules
2	get	present	one	2,000 millimetres of rain			year		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer millimetre=Stimulus

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: Which is more likely a desert?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 likely	cop
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 likely	advmod
4	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 desert	det
6	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 likely	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 likely	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Both are deserts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 deserts	det
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 deserts	cop
3	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		both deserts					tree rules

Option 2

The one with 2,000 millimetres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 millimetres	case
4	2,000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 millimetres	nummod
5	millimetres	millimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The one with 100 millimetres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 millimetres	case
4	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 millimetres	nummod
5	millimetres	millimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod

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

Option 4

Neither, because both are warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	6 warm	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 warm	mark
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 warm	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 warm	cop
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	both					neither, warm property	tree rules

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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