--- title: If summers in the mountains get warmer year after year, what may hap… — Mountains: life as you climb higher · tree and pragmatics description: If summers in the mountains get warmer year after year, what may happen to the treeline? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Mountains: life as you climb higher» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / [Mountains: life as you climb higher](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★★ · Mountains: life as you climb higher If summers in the mountains get warmer year after year, what may happen to the treeline? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** summers · **What happens:** get, happen This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 13 «Mountains: life as you climb higher» of the biology 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/13-mountains-life-as-you-climb/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:13-mountains-life-as-you-climb:t11:1 # text = If summers in the mountains get warmer year after year, what may happen to the treeline? 1 If if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 summers summer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 7 warmer warm ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 8 amod _ _ 8 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 9 after after ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 nsubj _ _ 13 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 treeline treeline NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | summers in the mountains | | | | year | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **happen** | may | | | | | | to the treeline | vn occur-48.3-1 «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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} It may creep higher up the mountain ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:13-mountains-life-as-you-climb:t11:o1:1 # text = It may creep higher up the mountain 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 creep creep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 higher high ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 5 up up ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **creep** | may | It | | | the mountain | | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up mountain=Trajectory | ### Option 2 {#o2} It will drop down to the valley ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:13-mountains-life-as-you-climb:t11:o2:1 # text = It will drop down to the valley 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 drop drop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 down down ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 valley valley NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop down** | future | It | | | the valley | | down *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to valley=Trajectory | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} All the trees will vanish ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:13-mountains-life-as-you-climb:t11:o3:1 # text = All the trees will vanish 1 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 3 det:predet _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 vanish vanish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **vanish** | future | all trees | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} It will stay exactly where it is now ```conllu # sent_id = question:biology:13-mountains-life-as-you-climb:t11:o4:1 # text = It will stay exactly where it is now 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 3 advmod _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 8 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | future | It | | | | now | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | it | | | | | exactly, where *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. 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