Test 4 · ★ · Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes

Which is true about lightning?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 lightning	case
5	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about lightning; true 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

It only strikes when it is raining hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 strikes	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 strikes	advmod
3	strikes	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 raining	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 raining	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 raining	aux
7	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 strikes	advcl
8	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 raining	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	present	It						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rain	present · progressive	it					hard property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 2

It only strikes in hot countries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 strikes	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 strikes	advmod
3	strikes	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 countries	case
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 countries	amod
6	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 strikes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	present	It			hot countries			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location

Option 3

It never strikes the same place twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 strikes	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 strikes	advmod
3	strikes	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 place	amod
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strikes	obj
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 strikes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not strike	present	It	the same place				twice property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It can strike the same place many times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 strike	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 strike	aux
3	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 place	amod
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strike	obj
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 times	amod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 strike	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	can	It	the same place			time		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient

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