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title: On a sunny afternoon you stand on the beach. Which way does the bree… — Wind and the air around the Earth · tree and pragmatics
description: On a sunny afternoon you stand on the beach. Which way does the breeze most likely blow? Test 4 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 4 · Wind and the air around the Earth

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On a sunny afternoon you stand on the beach. Which way does the breeze most likely blow?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, way · **What happens:** stand, do · **To what, where:** beach, breeze

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This is test 4 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* On a sunny afternoon you stand on the beach.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:69-wind-and-the-atmosphere:t4:1
# text = On a sunny afternoon you stand on the beach.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sunny	sunny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | you |  |  | the beach | afternoon |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on beach=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:* Which way does the breeze most likely blow?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:69-wind-and-the-atmosphere:t4:2
# text = Which way does the breeze most likely blow?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | which way | the breeze and likely blow |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breeze=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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From the sea onto the land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:69-wind-and-the-atmosphere:t4:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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Straight down from the sky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:69-wind-and-the-atmosphere:t4:o2:1
# 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 3 {#o3}

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From the land out to the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:69-wind-and-the-atmosphere:t4:o3:1
# 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.

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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There is never any breeze by the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:69-wind-and-the-atmosphere:t4:o4:1
# text = There is never any breeze by the sea
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **be** | present | any breeze |  |  | there |  | by the sea | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Location |

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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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