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title: Which best describes the temperate zone? — Climate zones · tree and pragmatics
description: Which best describes the temperate zone? Test 9 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 9 · Climate zones

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Which best describes the temperate zone?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **What happens:** describe · **To what, where:** temperate zone

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:16-climate-zones:t9:1
# text = Which best describes the temperate zone?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	temperate	temperate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	zone	zone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | present |  | the temperate zone |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent zone=Theme |

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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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Hot and dry all year round

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:16-climate-zones:t9:o1:1
# text = Hot and dry all year round
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	round	round	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Frozen all year round

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:16-climate-zones:t9:o2:1
# text = Frozen all year round
1	Frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	round	round	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  | year | round *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Warm summers, cold winters and four seasons

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:16-climate-zones:t9:o3:1
# text = Warm summers, cold winters and four seasons
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	summers	summer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	winters	winter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	seasons	season	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hot and wet all year round

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:16-climate-zones:t9:o4:1
# text = Hot and wet all year round
1	Hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	round	round	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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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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