Exam question 2 · Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes

Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the source of the energy of a hurricane?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: follow, characteris · To what, where: source

This is exam question 2 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	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 source	det
10	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 characterises	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 energy	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 energy	det
13	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 source	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 hurricane	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hurricane	det
16	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 energy	nmod
17	?	?	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 source of the energy of a hurricane				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

Cold air descending from the poles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 air	amod
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	descending	descend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 air	acl
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 poles	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 poles	det
6	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 descending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	descend	gerund	Cold air not said here			the poles			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from pole=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Warm water of tropical seas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 water	amod
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 seas	case
4	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 seas	amod
5	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 water	nmod

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

Option 3

Lightning within its clouds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	within	within	ADP	_	4 clouds	case
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 clouds	nmod:poss
4	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Lightning	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cloud		Lightning						nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Heat from volcanoes beneath the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 volcanoes	case
3	volcanoes	volcano	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Heat	nmod
4	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 volcanoes	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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