Test 5 · Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms
On a hot summer afternoon a tall dark cloud grows very quickly. What might it bring?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tall dark cloud, cloud · What happens: grow, bring
This is test 5 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: On a hot summer afternoon a tall dark cloud grows very quickly.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 afternoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 afternoon | det |
| 3 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 afternoon | amod |
| 4 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 afternoon | compound |
| 5 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grows | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cloud | det |
| 7 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cloud | amod |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cloud | amod |
| 9 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grows | nsubj |
| 10 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 quickly | advmod |
| 12 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 10 grows | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | a tall dark cloud | afternoon | quickly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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 might it bring?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 bring | obj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | might | cloud | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Thick fog like on a cold winter morning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fog | amod |
| 2 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 morning | case |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 morning | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 morning | det |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 morning | amod |
| 7 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 morning | compound |
| 8 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fog | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Clear, calm air and a bright, cloudless blue sky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 air | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Clear | punct |
| 3 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 air | amod |
| 4 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sky | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sky | det |
| 7 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sky | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bright | punct |
| 9 | cloudless | cloudless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sky | amod |
| 10 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sky | amod |
| 11 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 air | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A thunderstorm with heavy rain or hail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 thunderstorm | det |
| 2 | thunderstorm | thunderstorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 rain | case |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rain | amod |
| 5 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thunderstorm | nmod |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 hail | cc |
| 7 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thunderstorm | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A light and gentle fall of soft snowflakes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 light | det |
| 2 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fall | cc |
| 4 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fall | amod |
| 5 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 light | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 snowflakes | case |
| 7 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 snowflakes | amod |
| 8 | snowflakes | snowflake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fall | nmod |
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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