Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid save…

ngl the storm was wild, what snapped the mainmast?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, storm · What happens: ngl, be, snap · To what, where: mainmast

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 877 «Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid, part 88: the mermaid saves the drowning prince from the storm» 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	ngl	ngl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 storm	det
3	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wild	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wild	cop
5	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ngl	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 snapped	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 snapped	nsubj
8	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wild	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mainmast	det
10	mainmast	mainmast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snapped	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ngl	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	is	past	the storm		wild property	tree rules
3	snap	past		the mainmast		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mainmast=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

lightning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the lashing sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
2	lashing	lash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 sea	amod
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lash	gerund							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 3

the force of gale

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the wind

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	root	root

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

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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