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Test 5 · ★★ · Weather, lightning and storms

On a hot evening you see flashes but no thunder. What would happen if you drove towards them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: see, happen, drive · To what, where: flashes

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 15 «Weather, lightning and storms» of the myths 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: On a hot evening you see flashes but no thunder.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	4 evening	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 evening	det
3	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 evening	amod
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 see	obl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
6	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	flashes	flash	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 thunder	cc
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 thunder	det
10	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flashes	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 see	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	you	flashes but no thunder			evening		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flash=Stimulus

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 would happen if you drove towards them?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 drove	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 drove	nsubj
6	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drove	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drive a condition, not said to happen	past	you					towards flashes = flash	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent towards they=Trajectory

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

You'd find a hot cloud with no electricity in it at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 find	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cloud	det
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cloud	amod
6	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 electricity	case
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 electricity	det
9	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloud	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 electricity	nmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	You	a hot cloud		all		with no electricity in electricity	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent cloud=Theme at all=Asset

Option 2

You'd find a special silent storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 find	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 storm	det
5	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 storm	amod
6	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 storm	amod
7	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	would	You	a special silent storm					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

You'd likely start to hear thunder as you got closer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 start	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 start	aux
3	likely	likely	ADV	_	4 start	advmod
4	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hear	mark
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 start	xcomp
7	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obj
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 got	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	advcl
11	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	would	You					likely property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	hear	to-infinitive	You not said here	thunder					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thunder=Stimulus
3	get	past	you					close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

The flashes would vanish forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flashes	det
2	flashes	flash	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 vanish	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 vanish	aux
4	vanish	vanish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 vanish	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vanish	would	the flashes					forever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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