Exam question 3 · Clouds, rain, snow and hail

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning fog.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, response · What happens: select, be, establish · To what, where: response

This is exam question 3 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concerning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fog	amod
12	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consistent	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot

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

It is a cloud formed at ground level

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	4 cloud	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cloud	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cloud	det
4	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cloud	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 level	case
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 level	compound
8	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 formed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a cloud					tree rules
2	form	participle		a cloud not said here		ground level			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at level=Location

Option 2

It is smoke trapped near the ground

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 smoke	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 smoke	cop
3	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 smoke	acl
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	smoke					tree rules
2	trap	participle		smoke not said here		the ground			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It is frost which has melted

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 frost	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 frost	cop
3	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 melted	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 melted	aux
6	melted	melt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 frost	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	frost					tree rules
2	melt	present · perfect	frost						vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It is rain falling very slowly through cold air

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	4 falling	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 falling	aux
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 falling	nsubj
4	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 slowly	advmod
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 falling	advmod
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 air	amod
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 falling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present · progressive	It			cold air		slowly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through air=Location

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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