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Test 8 · ★★ · Weather emergencies

A boy in Alberta comes in from a blizzard with numb, pale fingertips. What should happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: come in, happen · To what, where: blizzard

This is test 8 · ★★ 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 Alberta comes in from a blizzard with numb, pale fingertips.

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	5 comes	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Alberta	case
4	Alberta	Alberta	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 comes	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 blizzard	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 blizzard	det
9	blizzard	blizzard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comes	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	14 fingertips	case
11	numb	numb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fingertips	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 numb	punct
13	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fingertips	amod
14	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 blizzard	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 comes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	present	a boy in Alberta			a blizzard with numb pale fingertips			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from blizzard=Initial_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: What should happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	should							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Warm them gently with warm, not hot, water and tell an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Warm	obj
3	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Warm	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	10 water	case
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hot	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 hot	advmod
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 warm	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 warm	punct
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Warm	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
12	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Warm	conj
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 adult	det
14	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm	imperative	you not said here	them = they				with warm water; gently property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with water=Instrument
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 2

Rub them hard with handfuls of fresh snow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Rub	obj
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Rub	xcomp
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 handfuls	case
5	handfuls	handful	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hard	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 snow	case
7	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snow	amod
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 handfuls	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	imperative	you not said here	them = they				hard property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

Hold them right up against a hot fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj
3	right	right	ADV	_	4 up	advmod
4	up	up	ADV	_	1 Hold	advmod
5	against	against	ADP	_	8 fire	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fire	det
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fire	amod
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	them = they		a hot fire			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme against fire=Location

Option 4

Go back out in the cold to get the feeling back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	out	out	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 cold	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cold	det
6	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 feeling	det
10	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj
11	back	back	ADV	_	8 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	imperative	you not said here			the cold		out property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	get back	to-infinitive	you not said here	the feeling					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feeling=Stimulus

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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