Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 144:…

why'd Zephyr make the storm, was it petty or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Zephyr, storm · What happens: make, be · To what, where: storm, petty

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 933 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 144: the lost prince shelters in the Winds' cave and hears the North and West Winds tell their adventures» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 make	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
3	Zephyr	Zephyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 storm	det
6	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 petty	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 petty	nsubj
10	petty	petty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	parataxis
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 petty	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	infinitive	Zephyr	the storm					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Product
2	is a	past	storm	petty					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 wanted to sink boats

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sink	mark
4	sink	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	boats	boat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sink	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	sink not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	boats					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boat=Patient

Option 2

the buffalo drop made him happy so he kept blowing harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drop	det
2	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drop	compound
3	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 kept	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	parataxis
10	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 kept	xcomp
11	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 blowing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the buffalo drop	him = he	happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
2	keep	past	drop			tree rules
3	blow	gerund	drop not said here		hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 3

he hated that buffalo a lot

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 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 buffalo	nsubj
4	buffalo	buffalo	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hated	ccomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hated	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	he	a lot					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	buffalo	present	that						tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the buffalo drop made him happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drop	det
2	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drop	compound
3	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the buffalo drop	him = he				happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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