Test 3 · ★ · Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, part 1: Swiss fighter…
was the sea calm when they set off, or mental?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sea, they · What happens: be, set off
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 348 «Tales of Courage, Arnold Winkelried, part 1: Swiss fighters face the spears, and Winkelried gives his life» 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 | 4 calm | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 calm | nsubj |
| 4 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 set | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 set | nsubj |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 calm | advcl |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 set | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mental | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 mental | cc |
| 11 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 calm | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 calm | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sea | calm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set off | past | they | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | the sea not said here | 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
mental, massive waves everywhere and the wind was howling loud
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 waves | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 mental | punct |
| 3 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 waves | amod |
| 4 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 howling | nsubj |
| 5 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 waves | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wind | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wind | det |
| 8 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waves | conj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 howling | aux |
| 10 | howling | howl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 10 howling | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | howl | past · progressive | mental massive waves and the wind | loud property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
mental, massive waves everywhere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 waves | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 mental | punct |
| 3 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 waves | amod |
| 4 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 waves | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
fairly calm, a bit choppy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 2 calm | advmod |
| 2 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 calm | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bit | det |
| 5 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 choppy | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | choppy | choppy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 calm | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
calm at first, then mental waves came crashing in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 waves | amod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 first | case |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 calm | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 calm | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 mental | advmod |
| 6 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 waves | amod |
| 7 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | crashing | crash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 came | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 crashing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | calm mental waves | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | crash in | gerund | calm mental waves not said here | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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