Test 9 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath,…

Ayy, what made him so mad out on the sea?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ayy · What happens: make out · To what, where: him, sea

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1917 «Yellow Fairy Book, The Black Bird, part 54: Vivien's bath, the Black Bird's words, and a paper ship» 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	Ayy	Ayy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 mad	advmod
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 sea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make out	past	Ayy	him = he		the sea		mad property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

Becalmed, no wind at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Becalmed	becalm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wind	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Becalmed	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 wind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	becalm	participle		no wind at all					tree rules

Option 2

Lost, no map found

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 map	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 map	det
4	map	map	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lost	obl
5	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 map	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle		no map					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	participle		no map not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Hungry, no food left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 food	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hungry	conj
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 food	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		no food not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

A storm with huge waves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 storm	det
2	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 waves	case
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 waves	amod
5	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 storm	nmod

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

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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