Test 13 · ★ · Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes

a video said hurricanes and typhoons are totally different storms. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: video, hurricanes · What happens: say, be · To what, where: different storms · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 68 «Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes» of the world course of Mova's primary school. 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 video	det
2	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 storms	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 typhoons	cc
6	typhoons	typhoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hurricanes	conj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 storms	cop
8	totally	totally	ADV	_	9 different	advmod
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 storms	amod
10	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	ccomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 storms	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	3 said	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a video						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	hurricanes and typhoons	different storms					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

Yes, hurricanes are just very big tornadoes that have moved over land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 tornadoes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tornadoes	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tornadoes	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 tornadoes	advmod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 big	advmod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tornadoes	amod
8	tornadoes	tornado	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 moved	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 moved	aux
11	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 tornadoes	acl:relcl
12	over	over	ADP	_	13 land	case
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	hurricanes	big tornadoes					tree rules
2	move	present · perfect	big tornadoes			land			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over land=Trajectory

Option 2

Yes, typhoons only form over cold seas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 form	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	typhoons	typhoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 form	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 form	advmod
5	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 seas	case
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seas	amod
8	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 form	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	form	present	typhoons			cold seas			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location

Option 3

No, a typhoon is just a small thunderstorm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 thunderstorm	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 typhoon	det
4	typhoon	typhoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thunderstorm	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thunderstorm	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 thunderstorm	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thunderstorm	det
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thunderstorm	amod
9	thunderstorm	thunderstorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a typhoon	a small thunderstorm					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, they are the same kind of storm with different names by region

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kind	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 kind	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 kind	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 kind	amod
7	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 storm	case
9	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kind	nmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 names	case
11	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 names	amod
12	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kind	nmod
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 region	case
14	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 names	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	the same kind				of storm; with different names by region	tree rules
2	name		region						nom name «communication transitive»: by=agent

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