Test 17 · ★★ · Weather emergencies

heard a family in Kansas went outside in the eye of the hurricane, thought it was over, and the wind came back

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kansas, family, wind · What happens: hear, go, think, be, come back · To what, where: family, eye · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 family	det
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 heard	obj
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 went	mark
5	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	ccomp
7	outside	outside	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 eye	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eye	det
10	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 hurricane	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hurricane	det
13	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eye	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thought	punct
15	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 over	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 over	cop
18	over	over	ADV	_	15 thought	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wind	det
22	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 heard	conj
24	back	back	ADV	_	23 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past		a family			tree rules
2	go	past	Kansas		the eye of the hurricane	outside property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in eye=Location
3	think speech: other	past					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	family			over property	tree rules
5	come back	past	the wind				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Real lesson: after the calm eye of a hurricane the winds come back, so stay inside

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lesson	amod
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 eye	punct
4	after	after	ADP	_	7 eye	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eye	det
6	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eye	amod
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hurricane	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hurricane	det
10	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eye	nmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 winds	det
12	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 come	nsubj
13	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stay	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 stay	advmod
17	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	conj
18	inside	inside	ADV	_	17 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	present	Real lesson						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stay	infinitive	Real lesson not said here					inside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Real lesson: hurricanes are over once it goes calm and the sun comes out again

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lesson	amod
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 goes	nsubj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 once	punct
4	hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 once	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 once	cop
6	over	over	ADV	_	7 once	advmod
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 goes	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 goes	nsubj
9	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 goes	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 comes	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comes	nsubj
14	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 goes	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 comes	compound:prt
16	again	again	ADV	_	14 comes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	hurricanes		once, over property	tree rules
2	go	present	Real lesson		calm property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come out	present	the sun	again		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It is gossip, so the calm is safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gossip	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gossip	cop
3	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 safe	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	9 safe	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 calm	det
7	calm	calm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 safe	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 safe	cop
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gossip	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	gossip					tree rules
2	is	present	the calm	gossip not said here				safe property	tree rules

Option 4

It proves only Kansas families get hurricanes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 families	advmod
4	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 families	compound
5	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 proves	ccomp
7	hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	get	present	Kansas families	hurricanes					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hurricane=Stimulus

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