Test 10 · ★ · Oz, The Cyclone, part 1: a cyclone lifts Dorothy's house i…

what was the storm called again?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: storm · What happens: be, call · To what, where: storm · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1586 «Oz, The Cyclone, part 1: a cyclone lifts Dorothy's house into the air» of the books 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 storm	det
4	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 storm	acl
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 called	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the storm						tree rules
2	call	participle		the storm not said here			again		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Option 1

A tornado, like a fast twister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tornado	det
2	tornado	tornado	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 twister	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 twister	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 twister	det
6	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 twister	amod
7	twister	twister	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tornado	conj

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

Option 2

A blizzard, like a cold snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 blizzard	det
2	blizzard	blizzard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 blizzard	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 snow	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 snow	det
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 snow	amod
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blizzard	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A cyclone, like a big spinny wind that picks up houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cyclone	det
2	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wind	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	8 wind	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wind	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wind	amod
7	spinny	spinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wind	compound
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cyclone	appos
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 picks	nsubj
10	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wind	acl:relcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 picks	compound:prt
12	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 picks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	present	a big spinny wind	houses					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A cyclone, like a big spinny wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cyclone	det
2	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wind	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	8 wind	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wind	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wind	amod
7	spinny	spinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wind	compound
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cyclone	conj

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

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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