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title: a teacher said wind blows from low pressure to high, did she mean it… — Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and st… · tree and pragmatics
description: a teacher said wind blows from low pressure to high, did she mean it the other way? Test 13 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 13 · Weather: pressure, wind, clouds and storms

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a teacher said wind blows from low pressure to high, did she mean it the other way?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** teacher, wind · **What happens:** say, blow, mean · **To what, where:** teacher · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:15-weather:t13:1
# text = a teacher said wind blows from low pressure to high, did she mean it the other way?
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a teacher |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **blow** | present | wind |  |  |  |  | to high; from low pressure | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from pressure=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **mean** | past · do-support | wind | teacher |  |  |  | the other way *obl:unmarked* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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Yes, wind blows from high pressure to low pressure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:15-weather:t13:o1:1
# text = Yes, wind blows from high pressure to low pressure
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | present | wind | low pressure |  |  |  | from high pressure | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pressure=Patient from pressure=Co-Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yes, wind blows from hot to cold places only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:15-weather:t13:o2:1
# text = Yes, wind blows from hot to cold places only
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | present | wind |  |  |  |  | to cold places; from hot | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from hot=Co-Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, wind really blows from low to high

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:15-weather:t13:o3:1
# text = No, wind really blows from low to high
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	blows	blow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | present |  | wind |  |  |  | to high; from low | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from low=Co-Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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No, wind does not depend on pressure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:15-weather:t13:o4:1
# text = No, wind does not depend on pressure
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	depend	depend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **depend** | present · do-support | wind |  |  |  |  | on pressure | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on pressure=Theme |

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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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