Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 51: a volu…

no cap, why did he think his brain was softening?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: he, cap · What happens: think, soften · To what, where: brain

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 840 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 51: a volunteer shrinks to wander through strange hearts, then a clerk puts on the goloshes and feels like a poet» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 softening	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 think	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 think	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 think	aux
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 cap	acl:relcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brain	nmod:poss
9	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 think	obj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 softening	aux
11	softening	soften	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 softening	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	he	his brain					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot brain=Theme
2	soften	past · progressive	no cap						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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

blood rushing to his head from standing too long in the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 blood	acl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rushing	obl
6	from	from	SCONJ	_	7 standing	mark
7	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rushing	advcl
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 long	advmod
9	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 standing	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 sun	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 standing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rush	gerund	blood not said here					to his head result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to head=Result
2	stand	gerund	blood not said here			the sun		long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location

Option 2

too much wine at dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	too	too	ADV	_	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wine	amod
3	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 dinner	case
5	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wine	nmod

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

Option 3

blood rushing to his head after reading too many poems at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 blood	acl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rushing	obl
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 reading	mark
7	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rushing	advcl
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 many	advmod
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 poems	amod
10	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reading	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 night	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rush	gerund	blood not said here					to his head result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to head=Result
2	read	gerund	blood not said here	many poems			night		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Topic

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

blood rushing to his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 blood	acl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rushing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rush	gerund	blood not said here					to his head result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to head=Result

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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