Exam question 2 · Weather emergencies

Identify the safest location during a tornado.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: safest location

This is exam question 2 of lesson 48 «Weather emergencies» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 location	det
3	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 location	amod
4	location	location	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	during	during	ADP	_	7 tornado	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tornado	det
7	tornado	tornado	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the safest location			during a tornado		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent location=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 · ← Mova's choice

An upstairs room with large windows, from which the tornado may be observed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 room	det
2	upstairs	upstairs	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 room	amod
3	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 windows	case
5	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 windows	amod
6	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 room	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 observed	punct
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 observed	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tornado	det
11	tornado	tornado	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 observed	nsubj:pass
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 observed	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 observed	aux:pass
14	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 room	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	observe	may · passive		the tornado		a upstairs room with large windows			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

Option 2

The roof of the building

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roof	det
2	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 building	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 building	det
5	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 roof	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A car parked in the open

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 car	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 open	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 open	det
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 parked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	park	participle		a car not said here		the open			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in open=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A basement, storm shelter, or windowless interior room on the lowest floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 basement	det
2	basement	basement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 shelter	punct
4	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shelter	compound
5	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 basement	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 room	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 room	cc
8	windowless	windowless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 room	amod
9	interior	interior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 room	amod
10	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 basement	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 floor	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 floor	det
13	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 floor	amod
14	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 room	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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