Exam question 2 · Wind and the air around the Earth

Identify the principal cause of winds upon the Earth.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify, cause · To what, where: principal cause, winds

This is exam question 2 of lesson 69 «Wind and the air around the Earth» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cause	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cause	amod
4	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 winds	case
6	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cause	nmod
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 Earth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Earth	det
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 winds	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal cause of winds upon the Earth					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme
2	cause			winds upon the Earth					nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient

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

The magnetism of the Earth's core

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 magnetism	det
2	magnetism	magnetism	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 core	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Earth	det
5	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 core	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Earth	case
7	core	core	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 magnetism	nmod

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

Option 2

The rotation of the Moon about the Earth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rotation	det
2	rotation	rotation	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Moon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Moon	det
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rotation	nmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 Earth	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Earth	det
8	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rotation	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rotate		the Moon					about the Earth	nom rotation «act intransitive»: of=agent about=obl

Option 3

The motion of ships upon the oceans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 motion	det
2	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 ships	case
4	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 motion	nmod
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 oceans	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 oceans	det
7	oceans	ocean	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 motion	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	motion		ships					upon the oceans	nom motion «communication intransitive»: of=agent upon=obl

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The uneven warming of the Earth by the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 warming	det
2	uneven	uneven	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 warming	amod
3	warming	warming	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Earth	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Earth	det
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 warming	nmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 Sun	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sun	det
9	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 warming	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm		the Earth						nom warming «process 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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