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title: Which place is a cold desert? — Climate zones · tree and pragmatics
description: Which place is a cold desert? Test 7 of lesson 16 «Climate zones» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 7 · Climate zones

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Which place is a cold desert?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** place · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** cold desert

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This is test 7 of lesson 16 «Climate zones» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/16-climate-zones/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:16-climate-zones:t7:1
# text = Which place is a cold desert?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | which place | a cold desert |  |  |  |  | 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Antarctica

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:16-climate-zones:t7:o1:1
# text = Antarctica
1	Antarctica	Antarctica	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Amazon rainforest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:16-climate-zones:t7:o2:1
# text = The Amazon rainforest
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A misty forest on the coast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:16-climate-zones:t7:o3:1
# text = A misty forest on the coast
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	misty	misty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A green rainy island

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:16-climate-zones:t7:o4:1
# text = A green rainy island
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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