Test 9 · ★ · Household Stories, Rosemary, part 41: a maiden seeks her l…

five tailors chasing the Wind all over the place, is that even real?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: five tailors · What happens: chase, be · To what, where: Wind, place

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1652 «Household Stories, Rosemary, part 41: a maiden seeks her lost husband, helped by the Sun, the Moon and the Wind» 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	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 tailors	nummod
2	tailors	tailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 real	nsubj
3	chasing	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 tailors	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Wind	det
5	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 chasing	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	9 place	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 place	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 place	det
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chasing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 tailors	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 real	cop
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 real	mark
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 real	advmod
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	gerund	five tailors not said here	the Wind		the place			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wind=Theme over place=Trajectory
2	is	present	five tailors					real 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

it's a fairy tale, so sure, why not

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	5 tale	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tale	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tale	det
4	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tale	amod
5	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sure	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 sure	advmod
8	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tale	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 why	punct
10	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 sure	advmod
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 sure	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a fairy tale					tree rules
2	not be								tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

it's a story, so yeah, pretty wild

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	4 story	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 story	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wild	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 wild	advmod
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 wild	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wild	punct
9	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	10 wild	advmod
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 story	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a story					tree rules

Option 3

it's a story, so yeah, pretty wild, and the wind is the funniest bit of all

The tree, 17 words

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	4 story	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 story	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wild	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 wild	advmod
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 wild	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wild	punct
9	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	10 wild	advmod
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 story	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bit	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bit	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wind	det
14	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bit	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 bit	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bit	det
17	funniest	funny	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 bit	amod
18	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wild	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a story					tree rules
2	is a	present	the wind	the funniest bit				of all	tree rules

Option 4

it's a story, so yeah, pretty wild, tailors chasing wind is a classic

The tree, 14 words

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	4 story	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 story	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 classic	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wild	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 wild	advmod
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 wild	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wild	punct
9	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	10 wild	advmod
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 story	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tailors	punct
12	tailors	tailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wild	obl
13	chasing	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 tailors	acl
14	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chasing	obj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 classic	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 classic	det
17	classic	classic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a story	tree rules
2	chase	gerund	tailors not said here	wind	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme
3	is a	present	a story	a classic	tree rules

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