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Test 6 · ★★ · Weather, lightning and storms

Granny looks at the freezing clear sky: "Too cold to snow tonight." What's the most accurate reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Granny, accurate reply · What happens: look, be · To what, where: clear sky

This is test 6 · ★★ 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: Granny looks at the freezing clear sky: "Too cold to snow tonight."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 sky	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sky	det
5	freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clear	compound
6	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sky	amod
7	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 cold	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 cold	punct
10	Too	too	ADV	_	11 cold	advmod
11	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looks	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	14 tonight	mark
13	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tonight	compound
14	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cold	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cold	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	Granny			the clear sky			tree rules

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's the most accurate reply?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reply	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 accurate	advmod
5	accurate	accurate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reply	amod
6	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the accurate reply						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Cold makes snow certain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
4	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Cold	snow				certain property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset snow=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Very cold air holds little water, so snow is less likely, but still possible

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Very	very	ADV	_	2 cold	advmod
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 air	amod
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holds	nsubj
4	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 water	amod
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 holds	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 likely	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 likely	advmod
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 likely	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 likely	cop
11	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 likely	advmod
12	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 holds	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 possible	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 possible	cc
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 possible	advmod
16	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 holds	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	cold air	little water					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	is	present	snow					less, likely property	tree rules

Option 3

She's right, snow can't fall below zero

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fall	punct
5	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fall	nsubj
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 fall	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 fall	advmod
8	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 right	parataxis
9	below	below	ADV	_	8 fall	advmod
10	zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 fall	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	She					right property	tree rules
2	not fall	can	snow	zero				below property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Snow only falls in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 falls	advmod
3	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 summer	case
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	obl

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

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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