Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His Daughters, part 239…

what's the rule about the Wind, is he sad or dead chill?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be · To what, where: rule

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1028 «Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His Daughters, part 239: the forest is felled, the ship is never sold, and the gold-making ends in smoke» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 rule	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rule	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rule	det
4	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 Wind	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Wind	det
7	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rule	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sad	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sad	cop
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sad	nsubj
11	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rule	parataxis
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 dead	cc
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sad	conj
14	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sad	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 rule	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the rule	about the Wind	tree rules
2	is	present	he		sad property	tree rules
3	be		he not said here			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

dead chill, he just passes by and blows stuff, singing down chimneys all day long

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chill	amod
2	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passes	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 chill	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 passes	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 passes	advmod
6	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	6 passes	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 blows	cc
9	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 passes	conj
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blows	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 singing	punct
12	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 passes	advcl
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 singing	compound:prt
14	chimneys	chimney	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 singing	obj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 day	det
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 singing	obl:unmarked
17	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 singing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass by	present	dead chill				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blow	present	dead chill not said here	stuff			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient
3	sing down speech: express	gerund	dead chill not said here	chimneys	day	long property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chimney=Theme

Option 2

dead chill, he just passes by and blows stuff around the land and then he's gone again

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chill	amod
2	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passes	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 chill	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 passes	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 passes	advmod
6	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 stuff	mark
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stuff	cc
9	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stuff	nsubj
10	stuff	stuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 passes	advcl
11	around	around	ADP	_	13 land	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 land	det
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stuff	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 gone	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 gone	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 gone	nsubj
17	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 gone	aux
18	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 stuff	conj
19	again	again	ADV	_	18 gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	pass	present	dead chill			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stuff	present	blows	the land		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent around land=Destination
3	go	present · passive	chill		then; again	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

dead chill, he just passes by and blows stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 chill	amod
2	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passes	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 chill	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 passes	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 passes	advmod
6	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	6 passes	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 blows	cc
9	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 passes	conj
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass by	present	dead chill						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blow	present	dead chill not said here	stuff					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient

Option 4

he's mostly calm but blows the snow about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 calm	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 calm	cop
3	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	4 calm	advmod
4	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 blows	cc
6	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 calm	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snow	det
8	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blows	obj
9	about	about	ADV	_	6 blows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					calm, mostly property	tree rules
2	blow	present	he not said here	the snow				about property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent snow=Patient

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