Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother…

test: what's Vertigo's whole deal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: test · What happens: be · To what, where: whole deal

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 853 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother lost in the ice, a boy sent to his uncle» 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	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 deal	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 deal	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 deal	cop
5	Vertigo	Vertigo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 deal	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Vertigo	case
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 deal	amod
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 test	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 test	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	test and Vertigo's whole deal	Vertigo's whole deal					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

he makes everybody dizzy and then they fall down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 makes	obj
4	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fall	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 fall	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fall	nsubj
8	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	conj
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	he	everybody				dizzy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everybody=Product
2	fall down	present	they				then	down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

making people sleep a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sleep	nsubj
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lot	det
5	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund							vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	sleep	present	making people	a lot					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

making people dizzy and fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 making	obj
3	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 making	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fall	cc
5	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dizzy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		people				dizzy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product
2	fall	infinitive							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

making people dizzy so they fall off cliffs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fall	csubj
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 making	obj
3	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 making	xcomp
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 fall	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fall	nsubj
6	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 fall	compound:prt
8	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		people				dizzy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product
2	fall off	present	people	cliffs					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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