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title: How can a warmer world have both more droughts and heavier downpours? — Weather, storms and the changing climate · tree and pragmatics
description: How can a warmer world have both more droughts and heavier downpours? Test 7 · ★★ of lesson 23 «Weather, storms and the changing climate» of the geography 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 7 · ★★ · Weather, storms and the changing climate

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How can a warmer world have both more droughts and heavier downpours?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** warmer world · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** more droughts

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This is test 7 · ★★ of lesson 23 «Weather, storms and the changing climate» of the geography 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/geography/23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate:t7:1
# text = How can a warmer world have both more droughts and heavier downpours?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	both	both	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	droughts	drought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	downpours	downpour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | can | a warmer world | more droughts and heavier downpours |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drought=Patient |

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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 {#o1}

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Droughts and floods both come from the world cooling down

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate:t7:o1:1
# text = Droughts and floods both come from the world cooling down
1	Droughts	drought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	both	both	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	cooling	cool	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	down	down	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Droughts and floods |  |  | the world |  | both *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from world=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **cool down** | gerund | Droughts and floods *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Warm air dries the ground faster and also holds more water to rain out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate:t7:o2:1
# text = Warm air dries the ground faster and also holds more water to rain out
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dries	dry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | present | Warm air | the ground |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ground=Result |
| 2 | **hold out** | present | Warm air *not said here* | more water |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Warming moves all the rain away to the poles

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate:t7:o3:1
# text = Warming moves all the rain away to the poles
1	Warming	warming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	moves	move	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	poles	pole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | present | Warming | all rain |  | the poles |  | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent rain=Theme to pole=Trajectory |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Warming only causes floods, never droughts; the droughts come from elsewhere

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate:t7:o4:1
# text = Warming only causes floods, never droughts; the droughts come from elsewhere
1	Warming	warm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	droughts	drought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	droughts	drought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warm** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **cause** | present |  | floods and droughts |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition flood=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | present | the droughts |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from elsewhere=Initial\_Location |

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**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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