Test 11 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun: a cloak se…

was the wind mad about losing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wind · What happens: be, lose

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 378 «Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun: a cloak settles the quarrel» 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 mad	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mad	nsubj
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	about	about	SCONJ	_	6 losing	mark
6	losing	lose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 mad	advcl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wind					mad property	tree rules
2	lose	gerund	the wind not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

yeah, he sulked all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sulked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sulked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sulked	nsubj
4	sulked	sulk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sulked	obl:unmarked
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 sulked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sulk	past	he				day	long property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

nah, he laughed it off and went to sleep under a big tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	4 laughed	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 went	cc
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laughed	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sleep	mark
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	xcomp
11	under	under	ADP	_	14 tree	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tree	amod
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sleep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	laugh off	past	he	it		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	go	past	he not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sleep	to-infinitive	he not said here		a big tree	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he got super mad and blew harder at the traveler for hours

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	super	super	ADV	_	6 mad	advmod
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 blew	cc
8	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
9	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 blew	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 traveler	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 traveler	det
12	traveler	traveler	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blew	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 hours	case
14	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 blew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he					mad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	blow	past	he not said here			the traveler	hour	hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

prob, but the story doesn't say

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 say	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 say	advmod
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 prob	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	the story						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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