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description: A climber starts at 1,000 metres where it is 20 degrees, and climbs to 3,000 metres. About what temperature should she expect? Test 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 o
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# Test 2 · ★★★ · Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts

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A climber starts at 1,000 metres where it is 20 degrees, and climbs to 3,000 metres. About what temperature should she expect?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** climber, she · **What happens:** start, be, climb, expect · **To what, where:** 1,000 metres, 20 degrees, 3,000 metres

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This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 50 «Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts» 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/50-why-the-earth-is-so/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A climber starts at 1,000 metres where it is 20 degrees, and climbs to 3,000 metres.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:50-why-the-earth-is-so:t2:1
# text = A climber starts at 1,000 metres where it is 20 degrees, and climbs to 3,000 metres.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	climber	climber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	1,000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	climbs	climb	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	to	too	ADV	RB	Typo=Yes	16	advmod	_	_
16	3,000	3000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | a climber |  |  | 1,000 metres |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is a** | present | climber | 20 degrees |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **climb** | present | a climber *not said here* | 3,000 metres |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location metre=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.

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*Sentence 2:* About what temperature should she expect?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:50-why-the-earth-is-so:t2:2
# text = About what temperature should she expect?
1	About	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	expect	expect	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 | **expect** | should | she |  |  |  |  | about temperature | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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About 26 degrees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:50-why-the-earth-is-so:t2:o1:1
# text = About 26 degrees
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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About 8 degrees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:50-why-the-earth-is-so:t2:o2:1
# text = About 8 degrees
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	8	8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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About 0 degrees exactly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:50-why-the-earth-is-so:t2:o3:1
# text = About 0 degrees exactly
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	0	0	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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About 18 degrees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:50-why-the-earth-is-so:t2:o4:1
# text = About 18 degrees
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	18	18	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|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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