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title: what was the storm called again? — Oz, The Cyclone, part 1: a cyclone lif… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was the storm called again? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1586 «Oz, The Cyclone, part 1: a cyclone lifts Dorothy's house into the air» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★ · Oz, The Cyclone, part 1: a cyclone lifts Dorothy's house i…

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what was the storm called again?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** storm · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** storm · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1586 «Oz, The Cyclone, part 1: a cyclone lifts Dorothy's house into the air» of the books 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1586-pg55-part1/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1586-pg55-part1:t10:1
# text = what was the storm called again?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the storm |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the storm *not said here* |  |  | again |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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A tornado, like a fast twister

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1586-pg55-part1:t10:o1:1
# text = A tornado, like a fast twister
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tornado	tornado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	twister	twister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A blizzard, like a cold snow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1586-pg55-part1:t10:o2:1
# text = A blizzard, like a cold snow
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	blizzard	blizzard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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A cyclone, like a big spinny wind that picks up houses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1586-pg55-part1:t10:o3:1
# text = A cyclone, like a big spinny wind that picks up houses
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	spinny	spinny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	picks	pick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | present | a big spinny wind | houses |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A cyclone, like a big spinny wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1586-pg55-part1:t10:o4:1
# text = A cyclone, like a big spinny wind
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cyclone	cyclone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	spinny	spinny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

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**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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