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Test 2 · Wind and the air around the Earth

A big plane flies over a thunderstorm. How can it do that?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: big plane, plane · What happens: fly, do · To what, where: thunderstorm, that

This is test 2 of lesson 69 «Wind and the air around the Earth» 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 big plane flies over a thunderstorm.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 plane	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plane	amod
3	plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flies	nsubj
4	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 thunderstorm	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thunderstorm	det
7	thunderstorm	thunderstorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flies	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	a big plane			a thunderstorm			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over thunderstorm=Location

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: How can it do that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 do	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 do	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	can	plane	that					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Storms are only a few metres high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 metres	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 metres	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 metres	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 metres	det
5	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 metres	amod
6	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 metres	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Storms	a few metres					tree rules

Option 2

Storms only happen at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 happen	advmod
3	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Storms				night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Planes push the storm aside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Planes	plane	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 push	nsubj
2	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 storm	det
4	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 push	obj
5	aside	aside	ADV	_	2 push	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	Planes	the storm				aside property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It flies above the layer where most weather happens

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 flies	nsubj
2	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	above	above	ADP	_	5 layer	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 layer	det
5	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flies	obl
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 happens	advmod
7	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 weather	amod
8	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 happens	nsubj
9	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 layer	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	It			the layer			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above layer=Location
2	happen	present	most weather						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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