Exam question 4 · Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes

Ascertain the designation given in the north-west Pacific to the storm termed a hurricane in the Atlantic.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, storm · What happens: ascertain, give, term · To what, where: designation, west Pacific, hurricane, Atlantic

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 designation	det
3	designation	designation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 designation	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	10 Pacific	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Pacific	det
7	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 west	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 north	punct
9	west	west	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Pacific	amod
10	Pacific	Pacific	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 given	obl
11	to	to	SCONJ	_	14 termed	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 storm	det
13	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 termed	nsubj
14	termed	term	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 given	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hurricane	det
16	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 termed	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 Atlantic	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Atlantic	det
19	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 hurricane	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the designation		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent designation=Topic
2	give	participle		the designation not said here	the west Pacific	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	term	past	the storm	a hurricane	the Atlantic	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurricane=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

A monsoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 monsoon	det
2	monsoon	monsoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A tornado

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tornado	det
2	tornado	tornado	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A cyclone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cyclone	det
2	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A typhoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 typhoon	det
2	typhoon	typhoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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