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title: Why does crouching low in the open help in a lightning storm? — Rain, floods and storms · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does crouching low in the open help in a lightning storm? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 235 «Rain, floods and storms» of the everyday 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 4 · ★ · Rain, floods and storms

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Why does crouching low in the open help in a lightning storm?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** crouch · **To what, where:** open help

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 235 «Rain, floods and storms» of the everyday 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/everyday/235-rain-floods-and-storms/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:t4:1
# text = Why does crouching low in the open help in a lightning storm?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	crouching	crouch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crouch** | present · do-support |  |  |  | the open help |  | in a lightning storm; low *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in help=Location |

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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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Being low down keeps you dry from the rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:t4:o1:1
# text = Being low down keeps you dry from the rain
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	cop	_	_
2	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | down, dry, keep *property* | tree rules |

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

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Lightning tends to hit the tallest things around

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:t4:o2:1
# text = Lightning tends to hit the tallest things around
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tends	tend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	hit	hit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	around	around	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tend** | present | Lightning |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hit** | to-infinitive | Lightning *not said here* | the tallest things |  |  |  | around *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Co-Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Lightning cannot reach the ground at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:t4:o3:1
# text = Lightning cannot reach the ground at all
1	Lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **reach** | can | Lightning | the ground |  | all |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent ground=Theme at all=Asset |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Lying flat on the wet grass is always the safest of all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:235-rain-floods-and-storms:t4:o4:1
# text = Lying flat on the wet grass is always the safest of all
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	flat	flat	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | the wet grass |  | flat *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | Lying |  |  |  |  | of all; always, safe *property* | tree rules |

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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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