Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to…

vibe check, what's the miller's big joke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vibe check · What happens: be · To what, where: big joke

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 859 «Andersen's Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 70: Rudy climbs to the eagle's nest» 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	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 check	compound
2	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 joke	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 joke	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 joke	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 miller	det
7	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 joke	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 miller	case
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 joke	amod
10	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 check	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	vibe check	the miller's big joke					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 thinks it's a fine joke

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 thinks	nsubj
2	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 joke	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 joke	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 joke	det
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 joke	amod
7	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thinks	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a fine joke					tree rules

Option 2

he mocks the boy's wild plan

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 mocks	nsubj
2	mocks	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plan	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 boy	case
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plan	amod
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mocks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	present	he	the boy's wild plan					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Theme
2	plan		the boy						nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

he gets angry

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 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gets	xcomp

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he laughs at rudy's eaglet plan

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 laughs	nsubj
2	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	7 plan	case
4	rudy	rudy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plan	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 rudy	case
6	eaglet	eaglet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plan	compound
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 laughs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	he			rudy's eaglet plan			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	plan		rudy						nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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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