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title: Which pair is "wind is blowing" and "thunder is striking"? — Weather and what Granny says to wear · tree and pragmatics
description: Which pair is "wind is blowing" and "thunder is striking"? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 20 «Weather and what Granny says to wear» of the Chinese street course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Weather and what Granny says to wear

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Which pair is "wind is blowing" and "thunder is striking"?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** pair, thunder · **What happens:** be, strike

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 20 «Weather and what Granny says to wear» of the Chinese street 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/chinese-street/20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t7:1
# text = Which pair is "wind is blowing" and "thunder is striking"?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present · progressive | which pair |  |  |  |  | blow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **strike** *in a quote* | present · progressive | thunder |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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yīntiān and qíngtiān

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t7:o1:1
# text = yīntiān and qíngtiān
1	yīntiān	yīntiān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	qíngtiān	qíngtiān	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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guā fēng le and dǎ léi le

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t7:o2:1
# text = guā fēng le and dǎ léi le
1	guā	guā	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	nsubj	_	_
2	fēng	fēng	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
3	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	dǎ	dǎ	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	compound	_	_
6	léi	léi	X	FW	_	3	conj	_	_
7	le	le	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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xià yǔ le and xià xuě le

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t7:o3:1
# text = xià yǔ le and xià xuě le
1	xià	xià	X	FW	_	3	dep	_	_
2	yǔ	yǔ	X	FW	_	3	compound	_	_
3	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	xià	xià	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	xuě	xuě	X	FW	_	7	compound	_	_
7	le	le	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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hǎo rè a and hǎo lěng

```conllu
# sent_id = question:chinese-street:20-weather-and-what-granny-says-to-wear:t7:o4:1
# text = hǎo rè a and hǎo lěng
1	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	2	flat:foreign	_	_
2	rè	rè	X	FW	_	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	hǎo	hǎo	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	_
6	lěng	lěng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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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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