Test 4 · Wind and the air around the Earth
On a sunny afternoon you stand on the beach. Which way does the breeze most likely blow?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, way · What happens: stand, do · To what, where: beach, breeze
This is test 4 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: On a sunny afternoon you stand on the beach.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 afternoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 afternoon | det |
| 3 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 afternoon | amod |
| 4 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | obl |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 stand | nsubj |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 beach | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beach | det |
| 9 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | you | the beach | afternoon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on beach=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: Which way does the breeze most likely blow?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 breeze | det |
| 5 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 likely | advmod |
| 7 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 blow | amod |
| 8 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 breeze | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | which way | the breeze and likely blow | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breeze=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
From the sea onto the land
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 sea | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 land | det |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sea | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Straight down from the sky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Straight | straight | ADV | _ | 2 down | advmod |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 sky | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sky | det |
| 5 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 down | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
From the land out to the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 land | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 land | det |
| 3 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 land | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 out | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
There is never any breeze by the sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 breeze | det |
| 5 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | present | any breeze | there | by the sea | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Location |
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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