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title: Why can hail fall even in hot summer? — Clouds, rain, snow and hail · tree and pragmatics
description: Why can hail fall even in hot summer? Test 3 · ★ 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 right.
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# Test 3 · ★ · Clouds, rain, snow and hail

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Why can hail fall even in hot summer?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** hail · **To what, where:** fall

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This is test 3 · ★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:t3:1
# text = Why can hail fall even in hot summer?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hail	hail	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hail** | can |  | fall |  |  | summer |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fall=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Thunderstorm clouds reach so high that their tops are far below freezing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:t3:o1:1
# text = Thunderstorm clouds reach so high that their tops are far below freezing
1	Thunderstorm	thunderstorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reach	reach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
11	below	below	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | present | Thunderstorm clouds |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | clouds's tops |  |  | freezing |  | far *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Sun makes ice in the clouds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:t3:o2:1
# text = The Sun makes ice in the clouds
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | the Sun | ice |  | the clouds |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Summer air near the ground is below freezing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:t3:o3:1
# text = Summer air near the ground is below freezing
1	Summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	below	below	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	freezing	freezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Summer air near the ground |  |  | freezing |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Hail is made on the ground and blown upward

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:t3:o4:1
# text = Hail is made on the ground and blown upward
1	Hail	hail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
9	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | Hail |  | the ground |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **blow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | upward *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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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