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title: One house on a street is wrecked by a storm, while the house next do… — Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes… · tree and pragmatics
description: One house on a street is wrecked by a storm, while the house next door is hardly touched. What kind of storm was it probably? Test 6 · ★ 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 qu
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# Test 6 · ★ · Storms: thunder, lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes

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One house on a street is wrecked by a storm, while the house next door is hardly touched. What kind of storm was it probably?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** storm · **What happens:** wreck, touch, be · **To what, where:** One house, house, storm

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* One house on a street is wrecked by a storm, while the house next door is hardly touched.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:68-storms-and-wild-winds:t6:1
# text = One house on a street is wrecked by a storm, while the house next door is hardly touched.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	wrecked	wreck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wreck** | present · passive | a storm | One house on a street |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **touch** | present · passive |  | the house  next door |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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 kind of storm was it probably?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:68-storms-and-wild-winds:t6:2
# text = What kind of storm was it probably?
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
7	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | storm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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A tornado

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:68-storms-and-wild-winds:t6:o1:1
# text = A tornado
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tornado	tornado	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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A snowstorm

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:68-storms-and-wild-winds:t6:o2:1
# text = A snowstorm
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	snowstorm	snowstorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A hurricane

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:68-storms-and-wild-winds:t6:o3:1
# text = A hurricane
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hurricane	hurricane	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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A heat wave

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:68-storms-and-wild-winds:t6:o4:1
# text = A heat wave
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wave	wave	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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