Test 11 · Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms

wots a barometer for

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: wot · To what, where: barometer

This is test 11 of lesson 15 «Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms» of the world 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	wots	wot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 barometer	det
3	barometer	barometer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wots	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	1 wots	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wot	present		a barometer					tree rules

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

Measuring rainfall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Measuring	measure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Measuring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	gerund		rainfall					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme rainfall=Value

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Measuring air pressure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Measuring	measure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pressure	compound
3	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Measuring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	gerund		air pressure					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pressure=Value

Option 3

Showing which way the wind blows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 blows	csubj
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Showing	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Showing	obj
6	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	gerund		which way					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient wind=Topic
2	blow	present	Showing						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Measuring temperature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Measuring	measure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Measuring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	gerund		temperature					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme temperature=Value

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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