Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and H…

What did the windmill reckon it was, bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: windmill · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: bro

This is test 8 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reckon	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 windmill	det
4	windmill	windmill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bro	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bro	cop
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the windmill						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
2	is a	past	windmill	bro					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

A tall tower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tower	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tower	amod
3	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Enlightened, with sun and candles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Enlightened	enlighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sun	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sun	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 sun	case
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 candles	cc
6	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sun	conj

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

Option 3

A bright house with lamps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 house	det
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 house	amod
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 lamps	case
5	lamps	lamp	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 house	nmod

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

Option 4

Lit up by sun and candles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Lit	compound:prt
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 sun	case
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lit	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 candles	cc
6	candles	candle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sun	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit up	participle						by sun and candles	tree rules

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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