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title: we're goin up a 3000 m mountain, it's 20 degrees down here. how cold… — Mountains: life as you climb higher · tree and pragmatics
description: we're goin up a 3000 m mountain, it's 20 degrees down here. how cold at the top roughly Test 2 · ★★ 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.
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# Test 2 · ★★ · Mountains: life as you climb higher

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we're goin up a 3000 m mountain, it's 20 degrees down here. how cold at the top roughly

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** we, mountain · **What happens:** goin up, be · **To what, where:** m mountain, 20 degrees

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This is test 2 · ★★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:13-mountains-life-as-you-climb:t2:1
# text = we're goin up a 3000 m mountain, it's 20 degrees down here. how cold at the top roughly
1	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	goin	goin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	3000	3000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	m	M	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
18	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **goin up** | present · progressive | we | a m mountain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | mountain | 20 degrees |  | here |  |  | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About 20 degrees, the same as down here

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:13-mountains-life-as-you-climb:t2:o1:1
# text = About 20 degrees, the same as down here
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	obl	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
About 40 degrees, as it's nearer the Sun

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:13-mountains-life-as-you-climb:t2:o2:1
# text = About 40 degrees, as it's nearer the Sun
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
About minus 60 degrees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:13-mountains-life-as-you-climb:t2:o3:1
# text = About minus 60 degrees
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	minus	minus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
About 0 degrees, losing about 6 to 7 for every 1000 m

```conllu
# sent_id = question:biology:13-mountains-life-as-you-climb:t2:o4:1
# text = About 0 degrees, losing about 6 to 7 for every 1000 m
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	7	7	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	1000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	m	M	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | gerund | 0 degrees *not said here* | 6 |  |  |  | to 7; for every 1000 m | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 6=Eventuality |

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