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title: On a hot summer afternoon, a huge cloud grows tall like a tower and… — Clouds, rain, snow and hail · tree and pragmatics
description: On a hot summer afternoon, a huge cloud grows tall like a tower and dark below. What should you expect? Test 1 · ★ 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 wr
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# Test 1 · ★ · Clouds, rain, snow and hail

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On a hot summer afternoon, a huge cloud grows tall like a tower and dark below. What should you expect?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** huge cloud, you · **What happens:** grow, expect

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 67 «Clouds, rain, snow and hail» 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/67-clouds-rain-snow-hail/#t1).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* On a hot summer afternoon, a huge cloud grows tall like a tower and dark below.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:t1:1
# text = On a hot summer afternoon, a huge cloud grows tall like a tower and dark below.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
17	below	below	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | a huge cloud |  |  |  | afternoon | like a tower; tall *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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.

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*Sentence 2:* What should you expect?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:t1:2
# text = What should you expect?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	expect	expect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **expect** | should | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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A light drizzle that lasts all week without stopping

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:t1:o1:1
# text = A light drizzle that lasts all week without stopping
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	drizzle	drizzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | present | a light drizzle |  |  |  | week |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | gerund | a light drizzle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Snow falling all evening

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:t1:o2:1
# text = Snow falling all evening
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | gerund | Snow *not said here* |  |  |  | evening |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A calm clear night with frost

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:t1:o3:1
# text = A calm clear night with frost
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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A thunderstorm with heavy rain and perhaps hail

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:t1:o4:1
# text = A thunderstorm with heavy rain and perhaps hail
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thunderstorm	thunderstorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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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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