Test 10 · ★★ · Weather, storms and the changing climate

Why do the weather maps on TV show lines with triangles and half-circles?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: weather maps, show lines

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 23 «Weather, storms and the changing climate» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maps	det
4	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 maps	compound
5	maps	map	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 lines	case
7	TV	TV	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 show	compound
8	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lines	compound
9	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 maps	nmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 triangles	case
11	triangles	triangle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lines	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 circles	cc
13	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	15 circles	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 half	punct
15	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 triangles	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		the weather maps		show lines with triangles and half circles			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent map=Eventuality

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

They mark the borders between the counties

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 mark	nsubj
2	mark	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 borders	det
4	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mark	obj
5	between	between	ADP	_	7 counties	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 counties	det
7	counties	county	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mark	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	present	They	the borders		the counties			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent border=Theme between county=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They mark fronts, where warm and cold air meet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 mark	nsubj
2	mark	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fronts	front	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mark	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 warm	punct
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 warm	advmod
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fronts	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 meet	cc
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 meet	amod
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 meet	compound
10	meet	meet	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 warm	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	present	They	fronts					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent front=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They show where the trains run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 run	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trains	det
5	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 run	nsubj
6	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	They						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	run	present	the trains						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They show where lightning is going to strike today

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 going	advmod
4	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 show	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 strike	mark
8	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	today	today	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strike	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	show	present	They		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	present · progressive	lightning		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	strike	to-infinitive	lightning not said here	today	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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