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title: A wet wind blows from the sea over a high mountain range. Where will… — Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mo… · tree and pragmatics
description: A wet wind blows from the sea over a high mountain range. Where will the green forests most likely be? Test 4 · ★★★ 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 ea
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# Test 4 · ★★★ · Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts

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A wet wind blows from the sea over a high mountain range. Where will the green forests most likely be?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** wet wind · **What happens:** blow

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This is test 4 · ★★★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A wet wind blows from the sea over a high mountain range.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:50-why-the-earth-is-so:t4:1
# text = A wet wind blows from the sea over a high mountain range.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | present | a wet wind |  |  |  |  | over a high mountain range; from the sea | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from sea=Co-Patient |

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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:* Where will the green forests most likely be?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:50-why-the-earth-is-so:t4:2
# text = Where will the green forests most likely be?
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	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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On the far, dry side of the range

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:50-why-the-earth-is-so:t4:o1:1
# text = On the far, dry side of the range
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Only on the very top of the mountains

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:50-why-the-earth-is-so:t4:o2:1
# text = Only on the very top of the mountains
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Equally on both sides

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:50-why-the-earth-is-so:t4:o3:1
# text = Equally on both sides
1	Equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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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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On the slope facing the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:50-why-the-earth-is-so:t4:o4:1
# text = On the slope facing the sea
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	slope	slope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	facing	face	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | gerund | the slope *not said here* | the sea |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Destination |

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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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