Exam question 1 · Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the movement of wind?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris, move · To what, where: movement, wind

This is exam question 1 of lesson 15 «Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 movement	det
10	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 wind	case
12	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 movement	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present	the movement of wind	of the following statements; accurately property	tree rules
3	move		wind		nom movement «act transitive»: of=patient

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

It proceeds from regions of low pressure towards regions of high pressure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proceeds	nsubj
2	proceeds	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 regions	case
4	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 proceeds	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 pressure	case
6	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pressure	amod
7	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 regions	nmod
8	towards	towards	ADP	_	9 regions	case
9	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 proceeds	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 pressure	case
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pressure	amod
12	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 regions	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proceed	present	It			regions of low pressure		towards regions of high pressure	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It proceeds from the sea towards the land at all times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proceeds	nsubj
2	proceeds	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proceeds	obl
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 land	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 land	det
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 proceeds	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 times	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 times	det
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 proceeds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proceed	present	It			the sea	time	towards the land	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It proceeds invariably from north to south

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proceeds	nsubj
2	proceeds	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	invariably	invariably	ADV	_	2 proceeds	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 north	case
5	north	north	ADV	_	2 proceeds	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 south	case
7	south	south	ADV	_	5 north	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proceed	present	It					invariably, north property	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It proceeds from regions of high pressure towards regions of low pressure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proceeds	nsubj
2	proceeds	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 regions	case
4	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 proceeds	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 pressure	case
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pressure	amod
7	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 regions	nmod
8	towards	towards	ADP	_	9 regions	case
9	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 proceeds	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 pressure	case
11	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 pressure	amod
12	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 regions	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	proceed	present	It			regions of high pressure		towards regions of low pressure	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent

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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