Test 10 · ★ · The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane m…

Were the flames all wavy and wobbly, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: flames · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 645 «The Magic City, The North Pole, part 13: George and Jane meet a frozen dragon and are tied up by sealskin dwarfs.» 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	Were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flames	det
3	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Were	nsubj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Were	nsubj
5	wavy	wavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 all	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wobbly	cc
7	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wavy	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 though	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 wavy	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Were	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	the flames						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

No, straight as lilies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 straight	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 lilies	case
5	lilies	lily	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 straight	obl

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

Option 2

Yes, wobbly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 wobbly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	wobbly	wobbly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Yes, curled like ribbons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 curled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	curled	curl	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 ribbons	case
5	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 curled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curl	participle						like ribbons	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme

Option 4

No, they were just bright and sat very still in the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 bright	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bright	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bright	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bright	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 bright	advmod
6	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sat	cc
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bright	conj
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 still	advmod
10	still	still	ADV	_	8 sat	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 sky	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sky	det
13	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					bright property	tree rules
2	sit	past	they not said here			the sky	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sky=Location

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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