Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother…

test: the traveller's cloak blew off, so what happened to the man?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: test · What happens: blow off, happen

This is test 11 · ★ 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	7 blew	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 cloak	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 traveller	det
4	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cloak	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 traveller	case
6	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 test	conj
7	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 blew	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 happened	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 happened	advmod
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 happened	nsubj
12	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 blew	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 man	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 happened	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 blew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow off	past	test and the traveller's cloak						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	happen	past						to the man	vn occur-48.3-1 «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

the wind carried the cloak away over the edge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	nsubj
3	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cloak	det
5	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 carried	advmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 edge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 edge	det
9	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry away	past	the wind	the cloak		the edge		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the wind blew him right off the high cliff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blew	obj
5	right	right	ADV	_	3 blew	advmod
6	off	off	ADP	_	9 cliff	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cliff	det
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cliff	amod
9	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the wind	him = he				off the high cliff; right property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient off cliff=Co-Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the wind could not hold him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hold	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hold	advmod
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hold	could	the wind	him = he					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

the snow buried the man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snow	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buried	nsubj
3	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past	the snow	the man					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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