Test 5 · Wind and the air around the Earth
A weather report says the wind is from the west. Which way is a kite pulled?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: weather report, wind · What happens: say, be, pull · To what, where: west, kite · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 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 weather report says the wind is from the west.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 report | det |
| 2 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 report | compound |
| 3 | report | report | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wind | det |
| 6 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 west | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 west | cop |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 west | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 west | det |
| 10 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | ccomp |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a weather report | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the wind | the west | tree rules |
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 is a kite pulled?
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 | 6 pulled | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pulled | aux:pass |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kite | det |
| 5 | kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 pulled | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull | present · passive | a kite | which way obl:unmarked | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Straight upwards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 1 Straight | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Towards the west
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Towards | towards | ADP | _ | 3 west | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 west | det |
| 3 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Towards the east
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Towards | towards | ADP | _ | 3 east | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 east | det |
| 3 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Towards the north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Towards | towards | ADP | _ | 3 north | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 north | det |
| 3 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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