Test 3 · ★ · Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes
Thunder is rumbling and you are playing football in an open field. What should you do?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Thunder, you · What happens: rumble, play, do · To what, where: football, open field
This is test 3 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Thunder is rumbling and you are playing football in an open field.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rumbling | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rumbling | aux |
| 3 | rumbling | rumble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 playing | cc |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 playing | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 playing | aux |
| 7 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rumbling | conj |
| 8 | football | football | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 playing | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 field | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 field | det |
| 11 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 field | amod |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 playing | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rumbling | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rumble | present · progressive | Thunder | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | play | present · progressive | you | football | a open field | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent football=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.
Sentence 2: What should you do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Go into a building or a car as soon as you can
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 building | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 building | det |
| 4 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 car | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 car | det |
| 7 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 building | conj |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 soon | advmod |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Go | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 can | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 can | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 soon | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | a building or a car | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into building=Initial_Location |
Option 2
Shelter under the tallest tree nearby until it stops
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stops | nsubj |
| 2 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 4 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 tree | amod |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shelter | nmod |
| 6 | nearby | nearby | ADV | _ | 9 stops | advmod |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 9 stops | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 stops | nsubj |
| 9 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Shelter under the tallest tree | nearby property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Lie down flat in the middle of the field and wait
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Lie | advmod |
| 3 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Lie | xcomp |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 middle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 middle | det |
| 6 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lie | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 field | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 field | det |
| 9 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 middle | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wait | cc |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lie | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | imperative | you not said here | the middle of the field | down, flat property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | |||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Keep playing until the rain starts, then run home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| 3 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 6 starts | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rain | det |
| 5 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 starts | nsubj |
| 6 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 run | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 run | advmod |
| 9 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | conj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 run | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | play | gerund | you not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | start | present | the rain | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | run | infinitive | you not said here | then | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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