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title: What is fog? — Evaporation and condensation · tree and pragmatics
description: What is fog? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 13 «Evaporation and condensation» of the world 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 9 · ★ · Evaporation and condensation

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What is fog?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** fog

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 13 «Evaporation and condensation» of the world 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/world/13-evaporation-condensation/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:13-evaporation-condensation:t9:1
# text = What is fog?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	fog	fog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | fog |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Tiny drops of water formed when vapour cools near the ground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:13-evaporation-condensation:t9:o1:1
# text = Tiny drops of water formed when vapour cools near the ground
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
7	vapour	vapour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cools	cool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | participle | Tiny drops of water |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cool** | present | vapour |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A cloud of smoke from chimneys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:13-evaporation-condensation:t9:o2:1
# text = A cloud of smoke from chimneys
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cloud** |  |  | smoke |  | chimneys |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient from=place |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Dust lifted by the wind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:13-evaporation-condensation:t9:o3:1
# text = Dust lifted by the wind
1	Dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | participle |  | Dust *not said here* |  |  |  | by the wind | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by wind=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Pure water vapour gas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:13-evaporation-condensation:t9:o4:1
# text = Pure water vapour gas
1	Pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	vapour	vapour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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