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title: A big plane flies over a thunderstorm. How can it do that? — Wind and the air around the Earth · tree and pragmatics
description: A big plane flies over a thunderstorm. How can it do that? Test 2 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 right.
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# Test 2 · Wind and the air around the Earth

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A big plane flies over a thunderstorm. How can it do that?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** big plane, plane · **What happens:** fly, do · **To what, where:** thunderstorm, that

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This is test 2 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A big plane flies over a thunderstorm.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:69-wind-and-the-atmosphere:t2:1
# text = A big plane flies over a thunderstorm.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	plane	plane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	thunderstorm	thunderstorm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | a big plane |  |  | a thunderstorm |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over thunderstorm=Location |

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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:* How can it do that?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:69-wind-and-the-atmosphere:t2:2
# text = How can it do that?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | can | plane | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Storms are only a few metres high

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:69-wind-and-the-atmosphere:t2:o1:1
# text = Storms are only a few metres high
1	Storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Storms | a few metres |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Storms only happen at night

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:69-wind-and-the-atmosphere:t2:o2:1
# text = Storms only happen at night
1	Storms	storm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | present | Storms |  |  |  | night |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Planes push the storm aside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:69-wind-and-the-atmosphere:t2:o3:1
# text = Planes push the storm aside
1	Planes	plane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	push	push	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | present | Planes | the storm |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It flies above the layer where most weather happens

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:69-wind-and-the-atmosphere:t2:o4:1
# text = It flies above the layer where most weather happens
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	above	above	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	layer	layer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | It |  |  | the layer |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above layer=Location |
| 2 | **happen** | present | most weather |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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