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title: In the game winter is just a season. What did real people of the Lit… — Weather, storms and the changing climate · tree and pragmatics
description: In the game winter is just a season. What did real people of the Little Ice Age face? Test 9 · ★★ 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 wr
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# Test 9 · ★★ · Weather, storms and the changing climate

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In the game winter is just a season. What did real people of the Little Ice Age face?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** season, real people

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In the game winter is just a season.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate:t9:1
# text = In the game winter is just a season.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | a season |  |  | winter |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What did real people of the Little Ice Age face?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate:t9:2
# text = What did real people of the Little Ice Age face?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Ice	Ice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | real people of the Age face |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Hot summers every single year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate:t9:o1:1
# text = Hot summers every single year
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	summers	summer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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Colder winters and failed harvests in many years

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate:t9:o2:1
# text = Colder winters and failed harvests in many years
1	Colder	cold	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	failed	fail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	harvests	harvest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fail** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ice covering the whole of Europe all year, so nobody could farm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate:t9:o3:1
# text = Ice covering the whole of Europe all year, so nobody could farm
1	Ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	farm	farm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | gerund | Ice *not said here* | the whole |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme whole=Destination |
| 2 | **farm** | could | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Exactly the same weather as today

```conllu
# sent_id = question:geography:23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate:t9:o4:1
# text = Exactly the same weather as today
1	Exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

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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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