Test 3 · ★ · Weather signs and the 30-30 rule
If sound travelled as fast as light, what would you notice in a storm?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: sound, you · What happens: travel, notice · To what, where: light, storm
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 travelled | mark |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 travelled | nsubj |
| 3 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 travelled | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 light | case |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 travelled | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 notice | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 notice | obj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 notice | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 notice | nsubj |
| 12 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 light | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 storm | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 storm | det |
| 15 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 notice | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 travelled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | sound | as light; fast property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | notice | would | you | light | a storm | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=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
No thunder at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 thunder | det |
| 2 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 thunder | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Lightning lasting for minutes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | lasting | last | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Lightning | acl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 minutes | case |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lasting | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | gerund | Lightning not said here | minute | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Thunder and lightning at the same moment
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 lightning | cc |
| 3 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Thunder | conj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 moment | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 moment | amod |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Thunder | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Thunder arriving long before the lightning flash
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | arriving | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Thunder | acl |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 arriving | advmod |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 flash | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flash | det |
| 6 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flash | compound |
| 7 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arriving | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | gerund | Thunder not said here | before the lightning flash | long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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