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title: we're at the beach, sunny arvo, which way's the breeze blowing — Wind and the air around the Earth · tree and pragmatics
description: we're at the beach, sunny arvo, which way's the breeze blowing Test 11 of lesson 69 «Wind and the air around the Earth» 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 11 · Wind and the air around the Earth

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we're at the beach, sunny arvo, which way's the breeze blowing

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** we, way, breeze · **What happens:** be, blow · **To what, where:** beach, breeze

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This is test 11 of lesson 69 «Wind and the air around the Earth» 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/69-wind-and-the-atmosphere/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:69-wind-and-the-atmosphere:t11:1
# text = we're at the beach, sunny arvo, which way's the breeze blowing
1	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	arvo	arvo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	11	det	_	_
11	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
15	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | we |  |  | the beach |  | sunny arvo *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | which way | the breeze |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **blow** | gerund | the breeze *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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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Straight down from the sky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:69-wind-and-the-atmosphere:t11:o1:1
# text = Straight down from the sky
1	Straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	down	down	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Along the beach and never across it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:69-wind-and-the-atmosphere:t11:o2:1
# text = Along the beach and never across it
1	Along	along	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	conj	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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From the sea onto the land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:69-wind-and-the-atmosphere:t11:o3:1
# text = From the sea onto the land
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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From the land out to the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:69-wind-and-the-atmosphere:t11:o4:1
# text = From the land out to the sea
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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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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