Test 13 · ★ · Oz, The Cyclone, part 1: a cyclone lifts Dorothy's house i…

why did the house fly up, anyway?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: house · What happens: fly up

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1586 «Oz, The Cyclone, part 1: a cyclone lifts Dorothy's house into the air» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 fly	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fly	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fly	nsubj
5	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 fly	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fly	punct
8	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	5 fly	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly up	past · do-support	the house					anyway property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 strong gust hit it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 gust	det
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gust	amod
3	gust	gust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	a strong gust	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme

Option 2

The hot and cold air mixed near it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 air	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 air	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cold	cc
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hot	conj
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 air	acl
7	near	near	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mixed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix	participle		the hot air not said here		air			vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The big wind pushed up from below it

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	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wind	amod
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wind	acl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 pushed	compound:prt
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 below	case
7	below	below	ADV	_	4 pushed	obl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pushed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push up	participle	the big wind not said here	wind					vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme from below=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The north and south winds met under it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 winds	det
2	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 winds	compound
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 south	cc
4	south	south	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 north	conj
5	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 met	nsubj
6	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	under	under	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 met	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	the north winds			south			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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