Test 11 · ★ · Wind and weather

Why is it dangerous to walk through a park full of tall trees in a storm?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: park

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 15 «Wind and weather» of the physics 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	4 dangerous	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dangerous	nsubj
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 walk	mark
6	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 dangerous	advcl
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 park	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 park	det
9	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walk	obl
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 park	amod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 trees	case
12	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 trees	amod
13	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 full	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 storm	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 storm	det
16	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trees	nmod
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dangerous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					dangerous property	tree rules
2	walk	to-infinitive				a park			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through park=Trajectory

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 · ← Mova's choice

Trees make the wind colder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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	2 make	obj
5	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Strong wind can bring down branches or whole trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wind	amod
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bring	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bring	aux
4	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 bring	compound:prt
6	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bring	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 trees	cc
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 trees	amod
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 branches	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring down	can	Strong wind	branches or whole trees					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent branch=Theme

Option 3

Trees block the rain and make it worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 block	nsubj
2	block	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rain	det
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 block	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 make	cc
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 block	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	present	Trees	the rain					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer rain=Theme
2	make	infinitive	Trees not said here	rain				bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 4

Trees pull lightning down onto people, but only in summer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pull	nsubj
2	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pull	obj
4	down	down	ADV	_	2 pull	advmod
5	onto	onto	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pull	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 summer	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 summer	cc
9	only	only	ADV	_	11 summer	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 summer	case
11	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pull	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull down	present	Trees	lightning				onto people; down property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lightning=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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