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title: Which word names hail falling from a storm cloud? — The water cycle · tree and pragmatics
description: Which word names hail falling from a storm cloud? Test 7 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 7 · ★ · The water cycle

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Which word names hail falling from a storm cloud?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** word names · **What happens:** hail, fall · **To what, where:** storm cloud

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:14-the-water-cycle:t7:1
# text = Which word names hail falling from a storm cloud?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hail	hail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hail** | present | which word names |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund | which word names *not said here* |  |  | a storm cloud |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from cloud=Initial\_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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Precipitation

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:14-the-water-cycle:t7:o1:1
# text = Precipitation
1	Precipitation	precipitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Condensation

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:14-the-water-cycle:t7:o2:1
# text = Condensation
1	Condensation	condensation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Evaporation

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:14-the-water-cycle:t7:o3:1
# text = Evaporation
1	Evaporation	evaporation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Transpiration

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:14-the-water-cycle:t7:o4:1
# text = Transpiration
1	Transpiration	transpiration	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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