Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 1: the Wind…

Bro, did the Wind flex on that bonfire or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do · To what, where: Wind flex, bonfire

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flex	det
5	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 flex	compound
6	flex	flex	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 bonfire	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 bonfire	det
9	bonfire	bonfire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 bonfire	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bro	the Wind flex		that bonfire			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flex=Eventuality

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

Nah, it fizzled out pretty quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 fizzled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fizzled	nsubj
4	fizzled	fizzle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 fizzled	advmod
6	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	7 quick	advmod
7	quick	quick	ADV	_	4 fizzled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fizzle out	past	it					out, quick property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, it burned really hot and fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 burned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 burned	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 burned	nsubj
4	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 hot	advmod
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 burned	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fast	cc
8	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past	it						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it blazed brighter than the rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 blazed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blazed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blazed	nsubj
4	blazed	blaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 blazed	xcomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 rest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rest	det
8	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brighter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blaze	past	it					bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, it blazed brighter than every single fire in the whole village that night

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 blazed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blazed	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 blazed	nsubj
4	blazed	blaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 blazed	xcomp
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 fire	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 fire	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fire	amod
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 brighter	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 village	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 village	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 village	amod
13	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blazed	obl
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blazed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blaze	past	it			the whole village	night	bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location

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