Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 67: Rudy learns Bab…

Bro, what's the weather-cock with the apple all about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be · To what, where: weather cock

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 856 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 67: Rudy learns Babette is away and climbs the mountains after her» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cock	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 cock	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cock	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cock	det
6	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cock	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 weather	punct
8	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	appos
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 apple	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 apple	det
11	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cock	nmod
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 about	advmod
13	about	about	ADV	_	8 cock	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bro	the weather cock				with the apple; about property	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

a symbol of the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 symbol	det
2	symbol	symbol	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 village	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 village	det
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 symbol	nmod

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

Option 2

just a decoration

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	3 decoration	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 decoration	det
3	decoration	decoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a warning from the miller

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 warning	det
2	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 miller	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 miller	det
5	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warning	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a memory of William Tell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 memory	det
2	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Tell	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 William	case
4	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 memory	nmod
5	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive	a memory of William						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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