Test 2 · Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms
A weather report says the air pressure is falling fast. What weather is likely?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: weather report, air pressure · What happens: say, fall, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 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
Sentence 1: A weather report says the air pressure is falling fast.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 report | det |
| 2 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 report | compound |
| 3 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pressure | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pressure | compound |
| 7 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 falling | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 falling | aux |
| 9 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 says | ccomp |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 falling | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a weather report | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | fall | present · progressive | the air pressure | fast property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 weather is likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 likely | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 likely | cop |
| 4 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A completely still day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 2 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 3 still | advmod |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 day | advmod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A long sunny spell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 spell | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spell | amod |
| 3 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spell | amod |
| 4 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Clouds, wind and rain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wind | punct |
| 3 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Clouds | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 rain | cc |
| 5 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Clouds | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Clearer skies than before
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clearer | clear | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 skies | amod |
| 2 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 before | nsubj |
| 3 | than | than | ADP | _ | 4 before | fixed |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 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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