Test 18 · Sounds that warn

kid at school says if u can hear thunder ur totally safe cos the lightning's miles away

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid, u · What happens: say, hear · To what, where: thunder · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 18 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	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 school	case
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kid	nmod
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 hear	mark
6	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 hear	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hear	aux
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 safe	advcl
9	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obj
10	ur	ur	ADV	_	12 safe	advmod
11	totally	totally	ADV	_	12 safe	advmod
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
13	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	17 miles	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lightning	det
15	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 miles	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 lightning	case
17	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 safe	obl
18	away	away	ADV	_	4 says	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kid at school					away property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	hear a condition, not said to happen	can	u	thunder					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thunder=Stimulus

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

He is right, thunder means the storm has passed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 means	punct
5	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 storm	det
8	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	nsubj
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 passed	aux
10	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	He	right property	tree rules
2	mean	present	thunder		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pass	present · perfect	the storm		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

That is a wrong belief; if you can hear thunder you are close enough to be struck, so go inside

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 belief	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 belief	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 belief	det
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 belief	amod
5	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 hear	punct
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 hear	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 hear	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hear	aux
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 belief	parataxis
11	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hear	obj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 close	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 close	cop
14	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hear	ccomp
15	enough	enough	ADV	_	14 close	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	18 struck	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 struck	aux:pass
18	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 close	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 go	advmod
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hear	conj
22	inside	inside	ADV	_	21 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a wrong belief		tree rules
2	hear a condition, not said to happen	can	you	thunder		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thunder=Stimulus
3	is	present	you		close, enough property	tree rules
4	strike	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»
5	go	infinitive	you not said here		inside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He is right if you stand under a tall tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 stand	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 stand	nsubj
6	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	advcl
7	under	under	ADP	_	10 tree	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tree	amod
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	stand a condition, not said to happen	present	you			a tall tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location

Option 4

He is right as long as it is not raining yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 right	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 raining	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 raining	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 raining	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 raining	advmod
10	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 long	advcl
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	10 raining	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					long, right property	tree rules
2	not rain	present · progressive	it				yet		vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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