Test 12 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun: a cloak se…
so the sun's secret is just being chill?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: secret · What happens: be
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 chill | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 secret | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 sun | case |
| 5 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 chill | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 chill | cop |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 chill | advmod |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 chill | cop |
| 9 | chill | chill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 chill | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the sun's secret | chill property | 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
nah, he's cold and fierce
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 cold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cold | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cold | cop |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fierce | cc |
| 7 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cold | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | he not said here | tree rules |
Option 2
nah, he's both loud and warm, depending on how the day feels
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 loud | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 loud | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 loud | cop |
| 5 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 6 loud | cc:preconj |
| 6 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 warm | cc |
| 8 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 loud | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 depending | punct |
| 10 | depending | depend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 loud | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 15 feels | mark |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 feels | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feels | nsubj |
| 15 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 depending | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | loud property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | he not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | depend | gerund | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | feel | present | the day | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
yup, he's warm and gentle and never once blows anyone's hat off
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yup | yup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 warm | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yup | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 warm | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 warm | cop |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gentle | cc |
| 7 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warm | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 blows | cc |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 once | advmod |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 blows | advmod |
| 11 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 warm | conj |
| 12 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 hat | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 anyone | case |
| 14 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blows | obj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 blows | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | yup | warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | yup not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | blow off | present | yup not said here | anyone's hat | once property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hat=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yup, warm and gentle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yup | yup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 warm | punct |
| 3 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 yup | appos |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gentle | cc |
| 5 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 warm | conj |
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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