Test 7 · ★★ · Weather, lightning and storms

Ava's grandad swears by "red sky at night". How could you check it fairly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: grandad, you · What happens: swear, check · To what, where: sky

This is test 7 · ★★ 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: Ava's grandad swears by "red sky at night".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grandad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ava	case
3	grandad	grandad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swears	nsubj
4	swears	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 sky	case
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 sky	punct
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sky	amod
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swears	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swears	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 night	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 swears	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	present	Ava's grandad				night	by red sky	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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: How could you check it fairly?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 check	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 check	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 check	nsubj
4	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 check	obj
6	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	4 check	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	could	you	sky				fairly property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Look at one red sunset tonight and see whether tomorrow is sunny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 sunset	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sunset	nummod
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sunset	amod
5	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
6	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl:unmarked
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 see	cc
8	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj
9	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	12 sunny	mark
10	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sunny	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sunny	cop
12	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 see	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here	sunset; tonight		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	infinitive	you not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	tomorrow		sunny property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Keep a sky diary for a month and compare the next day's weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 diary	det
3	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 diary	compound
4	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 month	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 month	det
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 compare	cc
9	compare	compare	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Keep	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 day	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 weather	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 day	case
14	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 compare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	a sky diary	month	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diary=Theme
2	compare	infinitive	you not said here	the next day's weather		vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weather=Patient
3	weather		the next day			nom weather «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Ask a shepherd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		a shepherd				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shepherd=Recipient

Option 4

Google it once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Google	Google	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Google	appos
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Google	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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