Test 7 · Wind and the air around the Earth

Which is true about the air around the Earth?

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

This is test 7 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	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	_	6 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
7	around	around	ADP	_	9 Earth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Earth	det
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 air	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about the air around the Earth; 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

It is held in place by the clouds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 held	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 held	aux:pass
3	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 place	case
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 held	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 clouds	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 clouds	det
8	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 held	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present · passive	the clouds	It		place			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in place=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It is equally thick at every height

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thick	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thick	cop
3	equally	equally	ADV	_	4 thick	advmod
4	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 height	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 height	det
7	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			every height		equally, thick property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is a thin layer compared with the size of the Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 layer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 layer	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 layer	det
4	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 layer	amod
5	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 layer	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 size	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 size	det
9	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 compared	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Earth	det
12	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 size	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a thin layer					tree rules
2	compare	participle		a thin layer not said here				with the size of the Earth	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with size=Co-Patient

Option 4

It reaches all the way up to the Moon and a little beyond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reaches	nsubj
2	reaches	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 way	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reaches	obj
6	up	up	ADV	_	2 reaches	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Moon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Moon	det
9	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reaches	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 beyond	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 beyond	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beyond	amod
13	beyond	beyond	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Moon	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	present	It	all way				to the Moon and a little beyond	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent way=Theme

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