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title: Which is true about how hard wind pushes? — Wind and weather · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true about how hard wind pushes? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 15 «Wind and weather» of the physics 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 8 · ★ · Wind and weather

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Which is true about how hard wind pushes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** hard wind · **What happens:** be, push

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 15 «Wind and weather» of the physics 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/physics/15-wind-and-weather/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:15-wind-and-weather:t8:1
# text = Which is true about how hard wind pushes?
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	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **push** | present | hard wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Wind always pushes exactly the same, whether it is fast or slow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:15-wind-and-weather:t8:o1:1
# text = Wind always pushes exactly the same, whether it is fast or slow
1	Wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | present | Wind |  |  |  |  | always, same *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Wind |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Wind *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Wind only pushes on things that are moving

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:15-wind-and-weather:t8:o2:1
# text = Wind only pushes on things that are moving
1	Wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | present | Wind |  |  |  |  | on things | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on thing=Theme |
| 2 | **move** | present · progressive | things |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A small rise in wind speed can make its push much bigger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:15-wind-and-weather:t8:o3:1
# text = A small rise in wind speed can make its push much bigger
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | can | a small rise in wind speed | rise's push |  |  |  | big *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset push=Product |
| 2 | **push** |  | rise |  |  |  |  |  | nom push «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Slow wind pushes harder than fast wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:15-wind-and-weather:t8:o4:1
# text = Slow wind pushes harder than fast wind
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	harder	hard	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | present | Slow wind |  |  |  |  | than fast wind; hard *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

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