Exam question 4 · Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms

Identify the instrument employed for the measurement of air pressure.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, instrument · What happens: identify, employ, measure · To what, where: air pressure

This is exam question 4 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 instrument	det
3	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 employed	nsubj
4	employed	employ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	ccomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 measurement	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 measurement	det
7	measurement	measurement	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 employed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 pressure	case
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pressure	compound
10	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 measurement	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	employ	past	the instrument		for the measurement of air pressure	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for measurement=Eventuality
3	measure			air pressure		nom measurement «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

A wind vane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 vane	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vane	compound
3	vane	vane	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A rain gauge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gauge	det
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gauge	compound
3	gauge	gauge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A thermometer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 thermometer	det
2	thermometer	thermometer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A barometer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 barometer	det
2	barometer	barometer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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