Test 13 · Sounds that warn

can hear thunder but no rain yet, keep playing out?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: hear, keep, play out · To what, where: thunder

This is test 13 of lesson 12 «Sounds that warn» of the everyday 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	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 hear	aux
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	obj
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 rain	cc
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 rain	det
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thunder	conj
7	yet	yet	ADV	_	2 hear	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 keep	punct
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 hear	conj
10	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 keep	xcomp
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 playing	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	roles by
1	hear	can	thunder but no rain	yet	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thunder=Stimulus
2	keep	infinitive			tree rules
3	play out	gerund			vn performance-26.7-1 «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

Yes, until it starts raining

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 starts	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 starts	punct
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 starts	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 starts	nsubj
5	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	raining	rain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 starts	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	it						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	rain	gerund							vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 2

Yes, if you stay under a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 stay	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 stay	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 stay	nsubj
5	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	you			a tree			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, lightning only hits in rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 lightning	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hits	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 hits	advmod
5	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 rain	case
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hits	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present	lightning			rain			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, go inside, lightning can reach you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reach	punct
6	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reach	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 reach	aux
8	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					inside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	can	lightning	you					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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