Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 1: the Wind…

Dude, who's even telling this creepy house story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, this · What happens: tell, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1027 «Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 1: the Wind tells of the Borreby house and its wild May feast» of the books 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 telling	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 telling	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 telling	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 telling	aux
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 telling	advmod
6	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 story	nsubj
8	creepy	creepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 story	amod
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 story	compound
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 telling	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 telling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · progressive	Dude						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	story		this						tree rules

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

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The old miller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 miller	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 miller	amod
3	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The old fisherman's ghost who haunts the village shore at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fisherman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fisherman	amod
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ghost	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 fisherman	case
5	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 haunts	nsubj
7	haunts	haunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ghost	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shore	det
9	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shore	compound
10	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 haunts	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 night	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 haunts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haunt	present	the old fisherman's ghost	the village shore			night		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus shore=Experiencer
2	ghost		the old fisherman						nom ghost «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Some random wisp from the old castle ruins, honestly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 wisp	det
2	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wisp	amod
3	wisp	wisp	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 ruins	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ruins	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ruins	amod
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ruins	compound
8	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wisp	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wisp	punct
10	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	3 wisp	advmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Wind, obvs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wind	det
2	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 obvs	punct
4	obvs	obv	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Wind	conj

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

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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