Test 13 · Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms

a teacher said wind blows from low pressure to high, did she mean it the other way?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: teacher, wind · What happens: say, blow, mean · To what, where: teacher · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 teacher	det
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blows	nsubj
5	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 pressure	case
7	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pressure	amod
8	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blows	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 high	case
10	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blows	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mean	punct
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 mean	aux
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mean	nsubj
14	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mean	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 way	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 way	amod
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mean	obl:unmarked
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a teacher			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	blow	present	wind		to high; from low pressure	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from pressure=Co-Patient
3	mean	past · do-support	wind	teacher	the other way obl:unmarked	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, wind blows from high pressure to low pressure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 blows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blows	nsubj
4	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 pressure	case
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pressure	amod
7	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blows	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 low	mark
9	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pressure	amod
10	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present	wind	low pressure				from high pressure	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pressure=Patient from pressure=Co-Patient

Option 2

Yes, wind blows from hot to cold places only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 blows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blows	punct
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blows	nsubj
4	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 hot	case
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blows	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 places	case
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 places	amod
9	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blows	obl
10	only	only	ADV	_	4 blows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present	wind					to cold places; from hot	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from hot=Co-Patient

Option 3

No, wind really blows from low to high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 wind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blows	obl
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 blows	advmod
5	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 low	case
7	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blows	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 high	case
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 blows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present		wind				to high; from low	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from low=Co-Patient

Option 4

No, wind does not depend on pressure

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 depend	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 depend	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 depend	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 depend	advmod
6	depend	depend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 pressure	case
8	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 depend	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not depend	present · do-support	wind					on pressure	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on pressure=Theme

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