Test 13 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty…

Was it a cold night, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 2016 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty and the lord's purse, then a haunted cabin and a man in a box» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 what	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Was	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 night	det
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 night	amod
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Was	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past							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

Freezing, with a March wind tearing through the trees and rain coming sideways over the moor, savage

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wind	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 wind	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wind	det
5	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wind	nmod:unmarked
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Freezing	appos
7	tearing	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 wind	acl
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 trees	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trees	det
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tearing	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rain	cc
12	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trees	conj
13	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 rain	acl
14	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	13 coming	advmod
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 moor	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 moor	det
17	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 coming	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 savage	punct
19	savage	savage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Freezing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear	gerund	a wind March not said here			the trees and rain			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Trajectory
2	come	gerund	rain not said here			the moor		sideways property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over moor=Initial_Location

Option 2

Mild and clear, moon out over the moor, lads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lads	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 clear	cc
3	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mild	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 moon	punct
5	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mild	obl
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 moon	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 moor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moor	det
9	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moon	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mild	punct
11	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Freezing, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Freezing	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Freezing, March wind tearing through the trees, savage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wind	punct
3	March	March	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wind	nmod:unmarked
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Freezing	appos
5	tearing	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 wind	acl
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 trees	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trees	det
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tearing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 savage	punct
10	savage	savage	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Freezing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tear	gerund	wind March not said here			the trees			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through tree=Trajectory

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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