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title: Which is true about a snowflake? — Clouds, rain, snow and hail · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true about a snowflake? Test 5 · ★ 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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# Test 5 · ★ · Clouds, rain, snow and hail

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Which is true about a snowflake?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:t5:1
# text = Which is true about a snowflake?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	snowflake	snowflake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about a snowflake; true *property* | 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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It is a piece of cloud that fell to the ground in one piece

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:t5:o1:1
# text = It is a piece of cloud that fell to the ground in one piece
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | It | a piece |  |  |  | of cloud | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | past | a piece |  |  | one piece |  | to the ground | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in piece=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It is a frozen raindrop that is perfectly round like a ball

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:t5:o2:1
# text = It is a frozen raindrop that is perfectly round like a ball
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	raindrop	raindrop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **freeze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | It | a frozen raindrop |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | a frozen raindrop |  |  |  |  | like a ball; perfectly, round *property* | tree rules |

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

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It is made of ice crystals with six sides or arms

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:t5:o3:1
# text = It is made of ice crystals with six sides or arms
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	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	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	crystals	crystal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  | of ice crystals; with six sides or arms | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It always has four arms, just like a cross or a plus sign

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:67-clouds-rain-snow-hail:t5:o4:1
# text = It always has four arms, just like a cross or a plus sign
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	plus	plus	ADJ	JJ	_	14	amod	_	_
14	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | It | four arms |  |  |  | always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=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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