Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goblin and the Grocer: the goblin bo…

so the watchman was blowing his horn, what was the big deal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: watchman, horn · What happens: blow, be · To what, where: horn, big deal

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1614 «Andersen's Tales, The Goblin and the Grocer: the goblin borrows a tongue and saves a book from fire» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 blowing	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 watchman	det
3	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blowing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blowing	aux
5	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 horn	nmod:poss
7	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blowing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 deal	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 deal	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 deal	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 deal	det
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 deal	amod
13	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 horn	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 blowing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past · progressive	the watchman	watchman's horn and the big deal					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient
2	is a	past	watchman's horn and the big deal	the big deal					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 · ✓ the right answer

a great fire was in town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fire	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fire	amod
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 town	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 town	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 town	case
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a great fire			town			tree rules

Option 2

the watch was on break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 watch	det
2	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 break	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 break	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 break	case
5	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the watch			break			tree rules

Option 3

a great fire was burning in the town square

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fire	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fire	amod
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burning	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 burning	aux
5	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 square	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 square	det
8	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 square	compound
9	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 burning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · progressive	a great fire			the town square			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in square=Location

Option 4

a great fire was spreading through the whole town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fire	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fire	amod
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spreading	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spreading	aux
5	spreading	spread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	9 town	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 town	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 town	amod
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 spreading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	past · progressive	a great fire			the whole town			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through town=Location

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