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title: where does rain even come from — The water cycle · tree and pragmatics
description: where does rain even come from Test 10 · ★ of lesson 14 «The water cycle» 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 wrong.
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# Test 10 · ★ · The water cycle

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where does rain even come from

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** come

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 14 «The water cycle» 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/14-the-water-cycle/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:14-the-water-cycle:t10:1
# text = where does rain even come from
1	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Water that falls off the Moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:14-the-water-cycle:t10:o1:1
# text = Water that falls off the Moon
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall off** | present | Water | the Moon |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient moon=Extent |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Water that evaporated, rose and condensed into clouds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:14-the-water-cycle:t10:o2:1
# text = Water that evaporated, rose and condensed into clouds
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	evaporated	evaporate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	condensed	condense	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **evaporate** | past | Water |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **rise** | past | Water *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **condense** | past | Water *not said here* |  |  | clouds |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Water that clouds pull up from deep underground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:14-the-water-cycle:t10:o3:1
# text = Water that clouds pull up from deep underground
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
3	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull up** | present | Water |  |  |  |  | underground *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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New water the sky makes every day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:14-the-water-cycle:t10:o4:1
# text = New water the sky makes every day
1	New	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | New water |  |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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