Test 9 · Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms

Which sentence describes the weather?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sentence · What happens: describe · To what, where: weather

This is test 9 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 sentence	det
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 describes	nsubj
3	describes	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 weather	det
5	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 describes	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 describes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present	which sentence	the weather					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent weather=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The poles are always cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 poles	det
2	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cold	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 cold	advmod
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the poles					always, cold property	tree rules

Option 2

Deserts are dry most of the year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dry	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dry	cop
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 dry	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 year	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Deserts					most of the year obl; dry property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It is raining in our town this morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 raining	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 raining	aux
3	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 town	nmod:poss
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raining	obl
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 morning	det
8	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 raining	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	present · progressive	It			our town	morning		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 4

Our country has cold winters every year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 country	nmod:poss
2	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 winters	amod
5	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Our country				winter; year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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