Test 11 · ★ · Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magi…

so what's Tiidu staring at, the sea or the sky?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tiidu · What happens: stare

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 679 «Esthonian Tales, Tiidu the Piper, part 19: shipwreck, magic apples and a hope of rescue» 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	_	5 staring	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 staring	obj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 staring	aux
4	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 staring	nsubj
5	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	5 staring	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sea	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 staring	conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 sky	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sky	det
12	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sea	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 staring	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	present · progressive	Tiidu						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 sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sky	det
2	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The island

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 island	det
2	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The sea, hoping for a sail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hoping	punct
4	hoping	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 sea	acl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 sail	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 sail	det
7	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hoping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	gerund	the sea not said here					for a sail	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for sail=Theme

Option 4

The trees, hoping for fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trees	det
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 trees	punct
4	hoping	hope	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 trees	acl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 fruit	case
6	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hoping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	gerund	the trees not said here					for fruit	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for fruit=Theme

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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