Test 5 · Climate: hot summers and hot arguments

A cartoon shows a cow burping a black storm cloud that sets a town on fire at once. What is the true version?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, cow, black storm cloud, true version · What happens: show, burp, set, be · To what, where: cow, black storm cloud, town, fire

This is test 5 of lesson 21 «Climate: hot summers and hot arguments» of the politics 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: A cartoon shows a cow burping a black storm cloud that sets a town on fire at once.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cow	det
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
6	burping	burp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 cow	acl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cloud	det
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cloud	amod
9	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cloud	compound
10	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 burping	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 sets	nsubj
12	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cloud	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 town	det
14	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sets	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 fire	case
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sets	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 once	case
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 sets	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon		a cow		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cow=Recipient
2	burp	gerund	a cow not said here	a black storm cloud			tree rules
3	set	present	a black storm cloud	a town		fire	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme on fire=Destination

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 is the true version?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cow burps add methane, an invisible warming gas, slowly over years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burps	compound
2	burps	burp	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 add	nsubj
3	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	methane	methane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 add	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gas	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 gas	det
7	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gas	amod
8	warming	warming	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gas	compound
9	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 methane	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slowly	punct
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 add	advmod
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 years	case
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 add	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	present	Cow burps	methane			year	slowly property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent methane=Patient

Option 2

Cow burps are thick black smoke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 burps	compound
2	burps	burp	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 smoke	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 smoke	cop
4	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 smoke	amod
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 smoke	amod
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Cow burps	thick black smoke					tree rules

Option 3

One burp can heat a whole town at once and start fires straight away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 burp	nummod
2	burp	burp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heat	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 heat	aux
4	heat	heat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 town	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 town	amod
7	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heat	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 heat	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 start	cc
11	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heat	conj
12	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 start	obj
13	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 away	advmod
14	away	away	ADV	_	11 start	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heat	can	One burp	a whole town					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent town=Patient
2	start	infinitive	One burp not said here	fires				away property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Eventuality

Option 4

Cows breathe out cold air that cools the planet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 breathe	nsubj
2	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 breathe	compound:prt
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 air	amod
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breathe	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 cools	nsubj
7	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 air	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 planet	det
9	planet	planet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cools	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe out	present	Cows	cold air					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme
2	cool	present	cold air	the planet					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent planet=Patient

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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