Test 13 · Wind and the air around the Earth

my brother reckons it gets warmer the higher u climb cos ur closer to the sun. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, it, higher u · What happens: reckon, get, climb

This is test 13 of lesson 69 «Wind and the air around the Earth» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gets	nsubj
5	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reckons	ccomp
6	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 gets	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 u	det
8	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 u	amod
9	u	u	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 climb	nsubj
10	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gets	parataxis
11	cos	cos	ADV	_	13 closer	advmod
12	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 closer	nmod:poss
13	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 climb	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 sun.	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sun.	det
16	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 closer	obl
17	right	right	ADV	_	5 gets	advmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	my brother		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	get	present	it	right, warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	climb	present	the higher u		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

No, the air stays the same at every height

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 stays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stays	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stays	nsubj
5	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stays	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 height	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 height	det
10	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stays	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	the air			every height		same property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at height=Location

Option 2

Yes, being closer to the Sun up there warms the air much more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 closer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 closer	cop
4	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 warms	nsubj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Sun	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sun	det
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 closer	obl
8	up	up	ADV	_	9 there	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 closer	advmod
10	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 air	det
12	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 warms	obj
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 warms	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund				there		to the Sun; close property	tree rules
2	warm	present	closer	the air					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, in the troposphere the air usually gets colder higher up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 troposphere	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 troposphere	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 troposphere	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 troposphere	det
5	troposphere	troposphere	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gets	nsubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gets	nsubj
8	usually	usually	ADV	_	9 gets	advmod
9	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 gets	xcomp
11	higher	high	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 up	advmod
12	up	up	ADV	_	9 gets	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the troposphere					cold, usually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Yes, but only above the highest clouds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 clouds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 clouds	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 clouds	advmod
5	above	above	ADP	_	8 clouds	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 clouds	det
7	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 clouds	amod
8	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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