Test 2 · ★ · Weather signs and the 30-30 rule

Why should a family caught in lightning stay inside their car?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family · What happens: catch, stay · To what, where: lightning, car

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 caught	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 family	det
4	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	nsubj
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 stay	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 lightning	case
7	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 caught	obl
8	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	inside	inside	ADP	_	11 car	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 car	nmod:poss
11	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stay	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	should	a family			lightning			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	stay	present				their car			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside car=Location

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 · ← Mova's choice

Lightning cannot hit cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hit	advmod
4	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hit	can	Lightning	cars					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme car=Co-Theme

Option 2

Its tyres keep them off the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tyres	nmod:poss
2	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	nsubj
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Its tyres	them = they				off the ground	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Its metal body shields them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 body	nmod:poss
2	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 body	compound
3	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shields	nsubj
4	shields	shield	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shields	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shield	present	Its metal body	them = they					tree rules

Option 4

Lightning bounces off heavy things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bounces	nsubj
2	bounces	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 things	case
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bounces	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce off	present	Lightning	heavy things					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Agent

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