Test 6 · ★ · Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes
One house on a street is wrecked by a storm, while the house next door is hardly touched. What kind of storm was it probably?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: storm · What happens: wreck, touch, be · To what, where: One house, house, storm
This is test 6 · ★ 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: One house on a street is wrecked by a storm, while the house next door is hardly touched.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 house | nummod |
| 2 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wrecked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 street | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 street | det |
| 5 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 house | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wrecked | aux:pass |
| 7 | wrecked | wreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 storm | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 storm | det |
| 10 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wrecked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 touched | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 touched | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 door | amod |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | nmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 touched | aux:pass |
| 18 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 19 touched | advmod |
| 19 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 wrecked | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wrecked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wreck | present · passive | a storm | One house on a street | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | touch | present · passive | the house next door | hardly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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 kind of storm was it probably?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 2 kind | det |
| 2 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 storm | case |
| 4 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kind | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 it | cop |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kind | nsubj |
| 7 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 2 kind | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 kind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | storm | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
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 2
A snowstorm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 snowstorm | det |
| 2 | snowstorm | snowstorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A hurricane
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hurricane | det |
| 2 | hurricane | hurricane | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A heat wave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wave | det |
| 2 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wave | compound |
| 3 | wave | wave | 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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