Test 10 · ★★★ · Winds, monsoons and ocean currents
Ben says the wind blows from low pressure to high pressure. Right?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ben, wind · What happens: say, blow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 22 «Winds, monsoons and ocean currents» of the geography 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: Ben says the wind blows from low pressure to high pressure.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wind | det |
| 4 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blows | nsubj |
| 5 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 pressure | case |
| 7 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 pressure | amod |
| 8 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blows | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 pressure | case |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pressure | amod |
| 11 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blows | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Ben | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | blow | present | the wind | to high pressure; from low pressure | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from pressure=Co-Patient |
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: Right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
Yes, air moves to where there is more air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 moves | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moves | nsubj |
| 4 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 where | case |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 is | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 moves | advcl |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 air | amod |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 is | nsubj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | air | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | present | more air | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, it blows from high pressure to low pressure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 blows | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 blows | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 blows | nsubj |
| 4 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 pressure | case |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pressure | amod |
| 7 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blows | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 low | mark |
| 9 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pressure | amod |
| 10 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blows | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present | it | low pressure | from high pressure | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pressure=Patient from pressure=Co-Patient |
Option 3
Yes, but only at sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 sea | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 sea | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 sea | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 sea | case |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
No, wind has nothing to do with pressure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 has | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 has | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 nothing | acl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 pressure | case |
| 9 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | wind | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | wind not said here | nothing not said here | with pressure | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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