Test 4 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 37: Jason with o…

wait the oak tree really talked tho?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, oak tree · What happens: wait, talk · To what, where: oak tree, tho

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 2078 «Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece, part 37: Jason with one sandal meets King Pelias and gets a quest» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
3	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 talked	advmod
6	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tree	acl:relcl
7	tho	tho	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 talked	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	the oak tree					tree rules
2	talk	past	the oak tree not said here	tho					vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent tho=Patient

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

yeah, the tree talked in a deep voice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 talked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 talked	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talked	nsubj
5	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 voice	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 voice	det
8	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 voice	amod
9	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past	the tree			a deep voice			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yeah, the leaves sounded like a huge wind speaking and a bass voice came from the trunk

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sounded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sounded	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 leaves	det
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sounded	nsubj
5	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 wind	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wind	det
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wind	amod
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sounded	obl
10	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 wind	acl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 voice	det
13	bass	bass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 voice	compound
14	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 speaking	conj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 trunk	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trunk	det
18	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sound	past	the leaves		like a huge wind	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	speak speech: other	gerund	a huge wind not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	a bass voice	the trunk		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from trunk=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the leaves sounded like a huge wind speaking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sounded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sounded	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 leaves	det
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sounded	nsubj
5	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 wind	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wind	det
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wind	amod
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sounded	obl
10	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 wind	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	past	the leaves					like a huge wind	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	speak speech: other	gerund	a huge wind not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, the leaves whispered like a big breeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 whispered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 whispered	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 leaves	det
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 whispered	nsubj
5	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 breeze	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 breeze	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 breeze	amod
9	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whispered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	past	the leaves					like a big breeze	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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