Test 11 · ★ · Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, part 14:…

How's the storm that the trumpet kicks off?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: trumpet · What happens: be, kick off · To what, where: storm

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 803 «Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, part 14: the widow's son returns, and Olaf Hase breaks into the church on Christmas night» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 storm	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 storm	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 storm	det
4	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kicks	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 kicks	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trumpet	det
7	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kicks	nsubj
8	kicks	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 kicks	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 kicks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the storm					tree rules
2	kick off	present	the trumpet						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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

Massive and freezing, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 freezing	cc
3	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Massive	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Massive	punct
5	innit	innit	INTJ	_	1 Massive	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	gerund							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Massive, dead scary, and getting worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 getting	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 scary	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scary	amod
4	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Massive	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 getting	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 getting	cc
7	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
8	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund						bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Massive, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mate	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Massive	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Dead loud and getting worse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 loud	advmod
2	loud	loud	ADV	_	4 getting	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 getting	cc
4	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
5	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund						bad, loud property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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