Test 6 · Wind and the air around the Earth

If the Sun warmed every place on the Earth exactly the same, what would happen to the winds?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sun · What happens: warm, happen · To what, where: place, Earth

This is test 6 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 warmed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sun	det
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 warmed	nsubj
4	warmed	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 same	advcl
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warmed	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 Earth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Earth	det
9	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 warmed	obl
10	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	12 same	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 same	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 happen	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 happen	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 happen	aux
16	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 same	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 winds	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 winds	det
19	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 happen	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 same	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm	past	the Sun	every place		the Earth			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent place=Patient
2	happen	would						to the winds	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

The winds would be just the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 winds	det
2	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 same	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 same	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 same	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 same	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the winds					same property	tree rules

Option 2

There would be much more wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 wind	amod
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 be	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	would	more wind			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

There would be much less wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 be	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 be	aux
3	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 less	advmod
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 wind	amod
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 be	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	would	less wind			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The winds would all blow upwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 winds	det
2	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blow	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 blow	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 blow	advmod
5	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	5 blow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	would	the winds					all, upwards property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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