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title: State the approximate fall in air temperature for every thousand met… — Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: State the approximate fall in air temperature for every thousand metres of ascent. Exam question 2 of lesson 50 «Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's
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# Exam question 2 · Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts

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State the approximate fall in air temperature for every thousand metres of ascent.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 50 «Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/50-why-the-earth-is-so/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:50-why-the-earth-is-so:e2:1
# text = State the approximate fall in air temperature for every thousand metres of ascent.
1	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	approximate	approximate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	ascent	ascent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It does not fall at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:50-why-the-earth-is-so:e2:o1:1
# text = It does not fall at all
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **fall** | present · do-support | It |  |  | all |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at all=Location |

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

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Approximately six degrees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:50-why-the-earth-is-so:e2:o2:1
# text = Approximately six degrees
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Approximately one degree

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:50-why-the-earth-is-so:e2:o3:1
# text = Approximately one degree
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Approximately sixty degrees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:50-why-the-earth-is-so:e2:o4:1
# text = Approximately sixty degrees
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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