Test 7 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun: a cloak se…

that wind was all talk, huh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wind · What happens: be · To what, where: talk

This is test 7 · ★ 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	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talk	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 talk	det
5	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 huh	punct
7	huh	huh	INTJ	_	5 talk	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that wind	all talk					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 · ✓ the right answer

yup, loud and empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 loud	punct
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 yup	amod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 empty	cc
5	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 loud	conj

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

Option 2

nah, the wind had real strength and blew the cloak around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 strength	amod
7	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 blew	cc
9	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cloak	det
11	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blew	obj
12	around	around	ADV	_	9 blew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the wind	real strength					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient
2	blow around	past	the wind not said here	the cloak				around property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent cloak=Patient

Option 3

yup, big mouth, no beef

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mouth	punct
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mouth	amod
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yup	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 beef	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 beef	det
7	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yup	conj

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

Option 4

yup, he was loud and empty but he also really hurt the Traveler

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loud	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loud	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loud	cop
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 empty	cc
7	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 loud	conj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 hurt	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hurt	nsubj
10	also	also	ADV	_	12 hurt	advmod
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 hurt	advmod
12	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 loud	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Traveler	det
14	Traveler	traveler	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	yup		loud property	tree rules
2	be		yup not said here			tree rules
3	hurt	infinitive	he	the Traveler		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer traveler=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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