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title: Identify the type of cloud which brings heavy rain, thunder and hail. — Clouds, rain, snow and hail · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the type of cloud which brings heavy rain, thunder and hail. Exam question 2 of lesson 67 «Clouds, rain, snow and hail» 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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# Exam question 2 · Clouds, rain, snow and hail

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Identify the type of cloud which brings heavy rain, thunder and hail.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, cloud · **What happens:** identify, bring, type · **To what, where:** type, heavy rain, cloud

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 67 «Clouds, rain, snow and hail» of the world course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/67-clouds-rain-snow-hail/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:e2:1
# text = Identify the type of cloud which brings heavy rain, thunder and hail.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the type of cloud |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent type=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | present | cloud | heavy rain and thunder and hail |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rain=Theme |
| 3 | **type** |  |  | cloud |  |  |  |  | nom type «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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Cirrus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:e2:o1:1
# text = Cirrus
1	Cirrus	cirrus	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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Cumulus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:e2:o2:1
# text = Cumulus
1	Cumulus	cumulus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Cumulonimbus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:e2:o3:1
# text = Cumulonimbus
1	Cumulonimbus	cumulonimbus	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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Stratus

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:e2:o4:1
# text = Stratus
1	Stratus	stratus	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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