Test 16 · ★ · Weather signs and the 30-30 rule

Mia says lightning never hits the same place twice. right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia, lightning · What happens: say, not hit · To what, where: same place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 15 «Weather signs and the 30-30 rule» 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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hits	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 hits	advmod
5	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 place	amod
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hits	obj
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 hits	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	2 says	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Mia						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not hit	present	lightning	the same place				twice property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Co-Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

No, it can and often does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 can	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 can	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 does	cc
6	often	often	ADV	_	7 does	advmod
7	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 can	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present						often property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, the ground stops it coming back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 stops	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ground	det
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stops	nsubj
5	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stops	obj
7	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stops	xcomp
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 coming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	the ground	it					tree rules
2	come back	gerund	the ground not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, it always moves somewhere new

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 moves	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 moves	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 moves	advmod
5	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 moves	advmod
7	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 somewhere	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	it					always, somewhere property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, unless there is metal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 metal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	5 is	mark
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 metal	cop
6	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		metal					tree rules

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