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description: Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a desert? Exam question 1 of lesson 66 «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» 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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# Exam question 1 · Deserts, rainforests and grasslands

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a desert?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** follow, characteris · **To what, where:** desert

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 66 «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» 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/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:e1:1
# text = Which of the following statements most accurately characterises a desert?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	statements	statement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **characteris** | present |  | a desert |  |  |  | of the following statements; accurately *property* | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A region invariably hot both by day and by night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:e1:o1:1
# text = A region invariably hot both by day and by night
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	both	both	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A region with more species than any other biome

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:e1:o2:1
# text = A region with more species than any other biome
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	biome	biome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A region receiving less than about 250 millimetres of rain a year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:e1:o3:1
# text = A region receiving less than about 250 millimetres of rain a year
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	7	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	250	250	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	millimetres	millimetre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | gerund | a region *not said here* | 250 millimetres of rain |  |  | year |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent millimetre=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A region invariably covered in sand dunes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:e1:o4:1
# text = A region invariably covered in sand dunes
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	dunes	dune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | participle · passive |  | a region |  |  |  | in sand dunes; invariably *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in dune=Theme |

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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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