Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and H…
Did the little thoughts make a racket, innit?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little thoughts · What happens: make, innit · To what, where: racket
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1030 «Andersen's Tales, The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and His Daughters: the stork's nest, Anna Dorothea's end, the mill that burned» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thoughts | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thoughts | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thoughts | amod |
| 4 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | nsubj |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 racket | det |
| 7 | racket | racket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| 9 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the little thoughts | a racket | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset racket=Product | ||||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | the little thoughts 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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a tremendous noise
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 noise | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 noise | det |
| 4 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 noise | amod |
| 5 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yeah, a tremendous noise like thunder, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 noise | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 noise | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 noise | det |
| 4 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 noise | amod |
| 5 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 thunder | case |
| 7 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noise | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| 9 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 noise | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | innit | infinitive | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, a loud racket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 racket | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 racket | det |
| 4 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 racket | amod |
| 5 | racket | racket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, they made the most tremendous noise ever heard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 made | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 noise | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 tremendous | advmod |
| 7 | tremendous | tremendous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 noise | amod |
| 8 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 heard | advmod |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 noise | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | they | the tremendous noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product | ||||
| 2 | hear | participle | the tremendous noise not said here | ever | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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