Test 2 · ★★ · Weather emergencies
Hurricane officials tell a family in Miami to leave their home near the sea. Why should they go?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hurricane officials, officials · What happens: tell, leave, go · To what, where: family, Miami, home, sea · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★★ 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: Hurricane officials tell a family in Miami to leave their home near the sea.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hurricane | Hurricane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 officials | compound |
| 2 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 family | det |
| 5 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Miami | case |
| 7 | Miami | Miami | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 leave | mark |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tell | advcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 home | nmod:poss |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leave | obj |
| 12 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sea | det |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leave | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Hurricane officials | a family | Miami | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent family=Recipient | |||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | Hurricane officials not said here | officials's home | the sea | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent home=Theme near sea=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.
Sentence 2: Why should they go?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | should | officials = official | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The storm surge could flood the area with seawater
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 surge | det |
| 2 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surge | compound |
| 3 | surge | surge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flood | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 flood | aux |
| 5 | flood | flood | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 area | det |
| 7 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flood | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 seawater | case |
| 9 | seawater | seawater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flood | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flood | could | the storm surge | the area | with seawater | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent area=Patient with seawater=Instrument |
Option 2
The wind is only strong near the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wind | det |
| 2 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strong | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 strong | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 strong | advmod |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strong | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the wind | the sea | strong property | tree rules |
Option 3
The sea will be too rough for swimming
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sea | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rough | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 rough | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 rough | cop |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 rough | advmod |
| 6 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 swimming | case |
| 8 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rough | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | the sea | for swimming; rough property | tree rules |
Option 4
Hurricanes only ever hit the houses that stand by the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hurricanes | hurricane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hit | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 hit | advmod |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 hit | advmod |
| 4 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 houses | det |
| 6 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hit | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 stand | nsubj |
| 8 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 houses | acl:relcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sea | det |
| 11 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stand | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | infinitive | Hurricanes | the houses | ever | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | present | the houses | by the sea | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by sea=Location |
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