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Exam question 3 · Wind and the air around the Earth

It is given that a wind is designated a north wind. Determine the direction thereof.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: give, designate, determine · To what, where: It, wind, direction

This is exam question 3 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

Sentence 1: It is given that a wind is designated a north wind.

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 given	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 designated	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 designated	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 designated	aux:pass
8	designated	designate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 given	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wind	det
10	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wind	compound
11	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 designated	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present · passive		It					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	designate	present · passive		a wind					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme wind=Attribute

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: Determine the direction thereof.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 direction	det
3	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	thereof	thereof	ADV	_	1 Determine	advmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the direction				thereof property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Topic

The options

Option 1

It blows from the south

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	2 blows	nsubj
2	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 south	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 south	det
5	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present	It					from the south	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from south=Co-Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It blows towards the north

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	2 blows	nsubj
2	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	towards	towards	ADP	_	5 north	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 north	det
5	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present	It					towards the north	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards north=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It blows from the north

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	2 blows	nsubj
2	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 north	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 north	det
5	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present	It					from the north	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from north=Co-Patient

Option 4

It blows only at the North Pole

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	2 blows	nsubj
2	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 Pole	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 Pole	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Pole	det
6	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Pole	compound
7	Pole	Pole	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 blows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	present	It			the North Pole			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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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