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Test 5 · ★ · Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes

A town by the sea is told a hurricane is coming. What is often the greatest danger?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hurricane · What happens: tell, come, be · To what, where: town, greatest danger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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: A town by the sea is told a hurricane is coming.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 town	det
2	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj:pass
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 town	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux:pass
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hurricane	det
9	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coming	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 coming	aux
11	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 told	ccomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · passive		a town by the sea					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come	present · progressive	a hurricane						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 is often the greatest danger?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 danger	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 danger	cop
3	often	often	ADV	_	6 danger	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 danger	det
5	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 danger	amod
6	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 danger	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the greatest danger				often property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The loud noise of thunder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 noise	det
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 noise	amod
3	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 thunder	case
5	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 noise	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	noise		thunder						nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2

The cold air after the storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 air	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 air	amod
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 storm	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 storm	det
6	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 air	nmod

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Flooding from the storm surge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flooding	flood	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 surge	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 surge	det
4	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 surge	compound
5	surge	surge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flooding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flood	gerund				the storm surge			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The bright flashes of lightning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flashes	det
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 flashes	amod
3	flashes	flash	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 lightning	case
5	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flashes	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flash		lightning						nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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