Test 14 · ★ · Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39: Maie wants more an…

Ok so what is the big deal with the weathercock anyway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: big deal

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1314 «Finnish Tales, Matte and Maie, part 39: Maie wants more and more, then throws stones at the sea-king» 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	7 deal	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	7 deal	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 deal	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deal	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deal	amod
7	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 weathercock	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 weathercock	det
10	weathercock	weathercock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deal	nmod
11	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	7 deal	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 deal	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the big deal				with the weathercock; anyway property	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

It spins fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spins	nsubj
2	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 spins	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	present	It					fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It squeaks in the wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 squeaks	nsubj
2	squeaks	squeak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 wind	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 squeaks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeak	present	It			the wind			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It squeaks before a storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 squeaks	nsubj
2	squeaks	squeak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 storm	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 storm	det
5	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 squeaks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeak	present	It			a storm			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before storm=Location

Option 4

It turns before the rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 rain	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rain	det
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It			the rain			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme before rain=Trajectory

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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