Test 2 · ★ · Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades…

Bro, which wind was Halvor chasing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: chase

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1513 «Book of Tales, Soria Moria Castle, part 10: Halvor trades his horse for magic boots, reaches the castle and wins the bride» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chasing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wind	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	conj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chasing	aux
6	Halvor	Halvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 chasing	nsubj
7	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 chasing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past · progressive	Bro and which wind						vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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 right answer

The West Wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Wind	det
2	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wind	compound
3	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The wind that blew from the frozen north

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	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wind	acl:relcl
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 north	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 north	det
7	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 north	amod
8	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the wind					from the frozen north	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from north=Co-Patient
2	freeze	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The South Wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Wind	det
2	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wind	compound
3	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Some strong wind that blew over the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 wind	det
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wind	amod
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 blew	nsubj
5	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wind	acl:relcl
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	some strong wind			the sea			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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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