Test 4 · The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator
A country lies on the equator. What weather is most likely there?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: country · What happens: lie, be · To what, where: equator
This is test 4 of lesson 7 «The shape and size of the Earth, the poles and the equator» 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: A country lies on the equator.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 country | det |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lies | nsubj |
| 3 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 equator | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 equator | det |
| 6 | equator | equator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lies | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | a country | the equator | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on equator=Location |
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: What weather is most likely there?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 there | nsubj |
| 2 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 there | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 likely | advmod |
| 5 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 6 there | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely, there property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Very cold winters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 cold | advmod |
| 2 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 winters | amod |
| 3 | winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Ice all year round
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ice | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 1 Ice | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Warm all year round
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 year | amod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 year | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Snow most of the year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 most | nsubj |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 year | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 year | det |
| 5 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 most | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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