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title: Which is true about earthquakes? — Weather emergencies · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true about earthquakes? Test 5 · ★★ of lesson 48 «Weather emergencies» 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 5 · ★★ · Weather emergencies

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Which is true about earthquakes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 48 «Weather emergencies» 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/48-weather-emergencies/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:48-weather-emergencies:t5:1
# text = Which is true about earthquakes?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	earthquakes	earthquake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about earthquakes; true *property* | tree rules |

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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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The ground opens and swallows people

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:48-weather-emergencies:t5:o1:1
# text = The ground opens and swallows people
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	swallows	swallow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present | the ground |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **swallow** | present | the ground *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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You should always run outside at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:48-weather-emergencies:t5:o2:1
# text = You should always run outside at once
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | should | You |  |  |  |  | always, outside *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Doorways are the safest place in every building, old or new

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:48-weather-emergencies:t5:o3:1
# text = Doorways are the safest place in every building, old or new
1	Doorways	doorway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Doorways | the safest place |  | every building |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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You drop, cover and hold on until the shaking stops

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:48-weather-emergencies:t5:o4:1
# text = You drop, cover and hold on until the shaking stops
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shaking	shaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hold on** | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stop** | present | the shaking |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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