Test 8 · ★ · Wind and weather

Which is true about how hard wind pushes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hard wind · What happens: be, push

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 pushes	mark
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wind	amod
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pushes	nsubj
8	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	advcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules
2	push	present	hard wind						vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Wind always pushes exactly the same, whether it is fast or slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 pushes	advmod
3	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 same	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pushes	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fast	punct
8	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	11 fast	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 fast	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fast	cop
11	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pushes	advcl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 slow	cc
13	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fast	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	push	present	Wind	always, same property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Wind	fast property	tree rules
3	be		Wind not said here		tree rules

Option 2

Wind only pushes on things that are moving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 pushes	advmod
3	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 things	case
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pushes	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 moving	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 moving	aux
8	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 things	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	Wind					on things	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on thing=Theme
2	move	present · progressive	things						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A small rise in wind speed can make its push much bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rise	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rise	amod
3	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 speed	case
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speed	compound
6	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rise	nmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 make	aux
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 push	nmod:poss
10	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 make	obj
11	much	much	ADV	_	12 bigger	advmod
12	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	a small rise in wind speed	rise's push				big property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset push=Product
2	push		rise						nom push «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Slow wind pushes harder than fast wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wind	amod
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	nsubj
3	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 pushes	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 wind	case
6	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wind	amod
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	Slow wind					than fast wind; hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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