Exam question 4 · Wind and the air around the Earth

Select the response that is consistent with the established facts concerning a sea breeze.

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, response, established facts · What happens: select, be, establish, concern · To what, where: response, sea breeze

This is exam question 4 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 consistent	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	cop
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 response	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 facts	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 facts	det
9	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 facts	amod
10	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 consistent	obl
11	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 facts	acl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 breeze	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 breeze	compound
14	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 concerning	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	is	present	the response		with the established facts; consistent property	tree rules
3	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
4	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	a sea breeze		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus breeze=Experiencer

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 blows only during storms at night

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	_	5 storms	advmod
4	during	during	ADP	_	5 storms	case
5	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 blows	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 night	case
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blows	obl

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It blows from the land out to sea on sunny days

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 land	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 land	det
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blows	obl
6	out	out	ADV	_	2 blows	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 sea	case
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blows	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 days	case
10	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 days	amod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 blows	obl

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

Option 3

It blows from the land out to sea by day and night alike

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 land	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 land	det
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blows	obl
6	out	out	ADV	_	2 blows	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 sea	case
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blows	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 day	case
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blows	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 night	cc
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	conj
13	alike	alike	ADV	_	2 blows	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It blows from the sea onto the land on sunny days

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 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blows	obl
6	onto	onto	ADP	_	8 land	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 land	det
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blows	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 days	case
10	sunny	sunny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 days	amod
11	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 blows	obl

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

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