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title: A girl in Arizona sees cacti and very little rain all year. In which… — The United States and its states · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Arizona sees cacti and very little rain all year. In which region does she live? Test 8 of lesson 44 «The United States and its states» 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 wrong.
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# Test 8 · The United States and its states

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A girl in Arizona sees cacti and very little rain all year. In which region does she live?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** see, live · **To what, where:** cacti, region

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This is test 8 of lesson 44 «The United States and its states» 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/44-the-usa-and-its-states/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A girl in Arizona sees cacti and very little rain all year.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t8:1
# text = A girl in Arizona sees cacti and very little rain all year.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Arizona	Arizona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	cacti	cactus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | a girl in Arizona | cacti and little rain |  |  | year |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cactus=Stimulus |

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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:* In which region does she live?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t8:2
# text = In which region does she live?
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	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 | **live** | present · do-support | girl |  |  | which region |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in region=Location |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The snowy North-east

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t8:o1:1
# text = The snowy North-east
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	east	east	NOUN	NN	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 Great Lakes region

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t8:o2:1
# text = The Great Lakes region
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Lakes	Lake	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The rainy Pacific North-west

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t8:o3:1
# text = The rainy Pacific North-west
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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

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

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The desert Southwest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:44-the-usa-and-its-states:t8:o4:1
# text = The desert Southwest
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	Southwest	Southwest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
```

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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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