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title: wots a barometer for — Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and st… · tree and pragmatics
description: wots a barometer for Test 11 of lesson 15 «Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms» 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 11 · Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms

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wots a barometer for

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **What happens:** wot · **To what, where:** barometer

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This is test 11 of lesson 15 «Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms» 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/15-weather/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:15-weather:t11:1
# text = wots a barometer for
1	wots	wot	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	barometer	barometer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wot** | present |  | a barometer |  |  |  |  | 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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Measuring rainfall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:15-weather:t11:o1:1
# text = Measuring rainfall
1	Measuring	measure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	rainfall	rainfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **measure** | gerund |  | rainfall |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme rainfall=Value |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Measuring air pressure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:15-weather:t11:o2:1
# text = Measuring air pressure
1	Measuring	measure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **measure** | gerund |  | air pressure |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme pressure=Value |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Showing which way the wind blows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:15-weather:t11:o3:1
# text = Showing which way the wind blows
1	Showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | gerund |  | which way |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient wind=Topic |
| 2 | **blow** | present | Showing |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Measuring temperature

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:15-weather:t11:o4:1
# text = Measuring temperature
1	Measuring	measure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **measure** | gerund |  | temperature |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme temperature=Value |

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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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