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title: Which is true about deserts? — Deserts, rainforests and grasslands · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true about deserts? Test 2 · ★ 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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# Test 2 · ★ · Deserts, rainforests and grasslands

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Which is true about deserts?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 66 «Deserts, rainforests and grasslands» 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/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t2:1
# text = Which is true about deserts?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about deserts; true *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 {#o1}

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Deserts get rain almost every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t2:o1:1
# text = Deserts get rain almost every day
1	Deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | Deserts | rain |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rain=Stimulus |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Every desert is hot and full of sand dunes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t2:o2:1
# text = Every desert is hot and full of sand dunes
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	dunes	dune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | every desert |  |  |  |  | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | every desert *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of sand dunes | tree rules |

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

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A desert is defined by very little rain, so it can be cold

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t2:o3:1
# text = A desert is defined by very little rain, so it can be cold
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	defined	define	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **define** | present · passive | little rain | a desert |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | can | desert |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing at all lives in deserts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands:t2:o4:1
# text = Nothing at all lives in deserts
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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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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