Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 1: the Wind…

Lol, what's the Wind's whole deal in this part?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: whole deal, Wind · What happens: be, deal · To what, where: part

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wind	det
6	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 deal	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Wind	case
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deal	amod
9	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 part	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 part	det
12	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 deal	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Wind's whole deal in this part						tree rules
2	deal		the Wind			this part			nom deal «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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

Just chilling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 chilling	advmod
2	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Telling a spooky house story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
3	spooky	spooky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	compound
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund		a spooky house story					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

Option 3

Warning people about storms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warning	warn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Warning	obj
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 storms	case
4	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Warning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	gerund			people			about storms	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent people=Recipient about storm=Topic

Option 4

Lighting a bonfire on May

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lighting	light	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bonfire	det
3	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lighting	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 May	case
5	May	May	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Lighting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	light	gerund		a bonfire			may		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bonfire=Product

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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