Test 1 · ★★ · Weather emergencies
A boy in Oklahoma is at a friend's house in a mobile home when a tornado warning sounds. What is safest?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: be · To what, where: house
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 48 «Weather emergencies» 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
Sentence 1: A boy in Oklahoma is at a friend's house in a mobile home when a tornado warning sounds.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Oklahoma | case |
| 4 | Oklahoma | Oklahoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 house | cop |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 friend | det |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 friend | case |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 home | det |
| 13 | mobile | mobile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 home | amod |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | nmod |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 sounds | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 warning | det |
| 17 | tornado | tornado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 warning | compound |
| 18 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sounds | compound |
| 19 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 house | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 house | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a boy in Oklahoma | a friend's house | in a mobile home; warning sounds obl | tree rules |
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.
Sentence 2: What is safest?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 safest | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 safest | cop |
| 3 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 safest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | safe property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Go up onto the roof to escape
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 5 roof | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 roof | det |
| 5 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 escape | mark |
| 7 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Go | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | imperative | you not said here | the roof | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | escape | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Hide in the car parked next to it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 car | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 car | det |
| 4 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hide | obl |
| 5 | parked | park | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 car | acl |
| 6 | next | next | ADV | _ | 5 parked | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 parked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | imperative | you not said here | the car | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in car=Location | ||||
| 2 | park | participle | the car not said here | car | next property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Go quickly to a sturdy building or storm shelter nearby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 building | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 building | det |
| 5 | sturdy | sturdy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 building | amod |
| 6 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 shelter | cc |
| 8 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shelter | compound |
| 9 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 building | conj |
| 10 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 9 shelter | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | a sturdy building or storm shelter | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to building=Initial_Location |
Option 4
Stay in the mobile home and hide under a bed until it has passed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 home | det |
| 4 | mobile | mobile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 home | amod |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stay | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hide | cc |
| 7 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Stay | conj |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bed | det |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hide | obl |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 passed | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 passed | aux |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hide | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | the mobile home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location | ||||
| 2 | hide | present | you not said here | a bed | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bed=Location | ||||
| 3 | pass | present · perfect · passive | bed | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
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