Test 7 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget…

Hang on, what was the scary noise in the ruin?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: hang on, be · To what, where: scary noise, ruin

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1872 «Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget the magic word and spend a night in a haunted ruin» 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	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 noise	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 noise	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 noise	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 noise	det
7	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 noise	amod
8	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hang	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 ruin	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ruin	det
11	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 noise	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the scary noise		the ruin			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

Just a dog, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	3 dog	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 mate	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dog	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A sigh and a moan, and Mansor was properly freaked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sigh	det
2	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 moan	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 moan	det
5	moan	moan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sigh	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 freaked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 freaked	cc
8	Mansor	Mansor	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 freaked	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 freaked	aux:pass
10	properly	properly	ADV	_	11 freaked	advmod
11	freaked	freak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sigh	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freak	past · passive		Mansor				properly property	tree rules

Option 3

A bird, I think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 bird	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	a bird						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

A distant drum, and the Caliph just laughed it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 drum	det
2	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drum	amod
3	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 laughed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 laughed	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 laughed	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Caliph	det
7	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 laughed	nsubj
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 laughed	advmod
9	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 laughed	obj
11	off	off	ADP	_	9 laughed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh off	past	a distant drum	Caliph					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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