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title: a video said hurricanes and typhoons are totally different storms. r… — Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes… · tree and pragmatics
description: a video said hurricanes and typhoons are totally different storms. right? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 68 «Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes» 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 13 · ★ · Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a video said hurricanes and typhoons are totally different storms. right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** video, hurricanes · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** different storms · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 68 «Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes» 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/68-storms-and-wild-winds/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:68-storms-and-wild-winds:t13:1
# text = a video said hurricanes and typhoons are totally different storms. right?
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	video	video	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	typhoons	typhoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
12	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	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 video |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | hurricanes and typhoons | different storms |  |  |  |  | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Yes, hurricanes are just very big tornadoes that have moved over land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:68-storms-and-wild-winds:t13:o1:1
# text = Yes, hurricanes are just very big tornadoes that have moved over land
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	hurricanes	hurricane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tornadoes	tornado	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | hurricanes | big tornadoes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **move** | present · perfect | big tornadoes |  |  | land |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over land=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, typhoons only form over cold seas

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:68-storms-and-wild-winds:t13:o2:1
# text = Yes, typhoons only form over cold seas
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	typhoons	typhoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present | typhoons |  |  | cold seas |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, a typhoon is just a small thunderstorm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:68-storms-and-wild-winds:t13:o3:1
# text = No, a typhoon is just a small thunderstorm
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	typhoon	typhoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	thunderstorm	thunderstorm	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 a** | present | a typhoon | a small thunderstorm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, they are the same kind of storm with different names by region

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:68-storms-and-wild-winds:t13:o4:1
# text = No, they are the same kind of storm with different names by region
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | they | the same kind |  |  |  | of storm; with different names by region | tree rules |
| 2 | **name** |  | region |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: by=agent |

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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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