Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wi…

proper cold out, yeah? what was the sky doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sky · What happens: cold out, do

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 886 «Andersen's Tales, The Mail-Coach Passengers, part 97: a wise man hunts the loveliest rose, then twelve months arrive at the town gate on New Year's Eve» 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	proper	properly	ADV	_	2 cold	advmod
2	cold	cold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 cold	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cold	punct
5	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 cold	discourse
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cold	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 doing	obj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 doing	aux
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sky	det
10	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 doing	nsubj
11	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 cold	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cold out	imperative	you not said here					properly property	tree rules
2	do	past · progressive	the sky						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 dark sky heavy with grey clouds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sky	det
2	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sky	amod
3	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heavy	nsubj
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 clouds	case
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 clouds	amod
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heavy	obl

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

Option 2

white with frost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 frost	case
3	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 white	obl

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

Option 3

clouded over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	clouded	cloud	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	over	over	ADV	_	1 clouded	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cloud over	participle						over property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

glittering with stars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 stars	case
3	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 glittering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glitter	gerund						with stars	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with star=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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