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Test 9 · Wind and the air around the Earth

At night the wind at the seaside turns and blows out to sea. Why?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: wind · What happens: turn, blow out · To what, where: sea

This is test 9 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: At night the wind at the seaside turns and blows out to sea.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turns	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turns	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 seaside	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seaside	det
7	seaside	seaside	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wind	nmod
8	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blows	cc
10	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 turns	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 blows	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 sea	case
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blows	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 turns	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the wind at the seaside				night		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	blow out	present	the wind at the seaside not said here		sea				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sea=Recipient

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

The Moon pulls the air out to sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Moon	det
2	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 pulls	nsubj
3	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 air	det
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulls	obj
6	out	out	ADV	_	3 pulls	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 sea	case
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull out	present	the Moon	the air				to sea; out property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The land cools faster than the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 land	det
2	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cools	nsubj
3	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 cools	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	present	the land					fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The sea cools faster than the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cools	nsubj
3	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 cools	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 land	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 land	det
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	present	the sea					fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

The waves stop moving at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 waves	det
2	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	the waves						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	move	gerund	the waves not said here				night		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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