Test 16 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as…

Wind and sun, who got the traveller's coat off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wind · What happens: get off · To what, where: coat

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 134 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as a doctor is turned away, and eight more short fables follow» 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	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sun	cc
3	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wind	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 traveller	det
8	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coat	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 traveller	case
10	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj
11	off	off	ADP	_	6 got	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get off	past	Wind and sun	the traveller's coat					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coat=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 · ← Mova's choice

The wind, by blowing hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blowing	punct
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 blowing	mark
5	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 wind	acl
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 blowing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	gerund	the wind not said here					hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The sun, by being warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sun	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 warm	case
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 warm	cop
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sun	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						warm property	tree rules

Option 3

The wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/134-pg11339-part4/t16/