Exam question 1 · Clouds, rain, snow and hail

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the composition of clouds?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: composition

This is exam question 1 of lesson 67 «Clouds, rain, snow and hail» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 characterises	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	5 statements	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 statements	det
4	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 statements	amod
5	statements	statement	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 characterises	obl
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 accurately	advmod
7	accurately	accurately	ADV	_	8 characterises	advmod
8	characterises	characteris	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 composition	det
10	composition	composition	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 clouds	case
12	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 composition	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 characterises	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	characteris	present		the composition of clouds				of the following statements; accurately property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Smoke rising from fires and big factories

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Smoke	acl
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 fires	case
4	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rising	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 factories	cc
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 factories	amod
7	factories	factory	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fires	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise	gerund	Smoke not said here			fires and big factories			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from fire=Initial_Location

Option 2

Invisible water vapour and nothing else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 vapour	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 vapour	compound
3	vapour	vapour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nothing	cc
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 vapour	conj
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 nothing	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Dust raised high into the sky by the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Dust	acl
3	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 raised	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 sky	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sky	det
6	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 raised	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 wind	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wind	det
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 raised	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	participle		Dust not said here		the sky		by the wind; high property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent into sky=Destination by wind=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Tiny water droplets or ice crystals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 droplets	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 droplets	compound
3	droplets	droplet	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 crystals	cc
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crystals	compound
6	crystals	crystal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 droplets	conj

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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