Test 13 · ★ · Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "w…

What sound did the echo make, sounding like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: sound · What happens: make, sound

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1288 «Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "wolf" that turns out to be his dog Caro» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 sound	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 echo	det
5	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sounding	punct
8	sounding	sound	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 make	advcl
9	like	like	INTJ	_	8 sounding	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · do-support	what sound						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	sound	gerund	what sound not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

A large wolf pack howling together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pack	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pack	amod
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pack	compound
4	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	howling	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 pack	acl
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 howling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	howl	gerund	a large wolf pack not said here					together property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

A wolf's howl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 howl	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 wolf	case
4	howl	howl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	howl		a wolf						nom howl «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

A dog's bark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bark	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dog	case
4	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A crow's caw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crow	det
2	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caw	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 crow	case
4	caw	caw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	caw		a crow						nom caw «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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