Exam question 1 · Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes
Identify the safest place in which a person may remain during a thunderstorm.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, person · What happens: identify, remain · To what, where: safest place
This is exam question 1 of lesson 68 «Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 place | det |
| 3 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 place | amod |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 which | case |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 remain | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 person | det |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remain | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 remain | aux |
| 10 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 place | acl:relcl |
| 11 | during | during | ADP | _ | 13 thunderstorm | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 thunderstorm | det |
| 13 | thunderstorm | thunderstorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remain | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the safest place | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remain | may | a person | the safest place | during a thunderstorm | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
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
Beneath a solitary tall tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 3 | solitary | solitary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tall | compound |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tree | amod |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Upon an open hilltop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 hilltop | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hilltop | det |
| 3 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hilltop | amod |
| 4 | hilltop | hilltop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
In the water of a lake
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 water | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 water | det |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lake | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lake | det |
| 6 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 water | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Within a building or a car with a metal roof
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 3 building | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 building | det |
| 3 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 car | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 car | det |
| 6 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 building | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 roof | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 roof | det |
| 9 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 roof | compound |
| 10 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 building | 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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