Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Tales by Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, part 145:…

what's a Bedouin, a bird or a cloak?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Bedouin

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 934 «Fairy Tales by Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, part 145: the Winds tell their travels, and the East Wind flies the prince toward paradise» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Bedouin	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Bedouin	det
4	Bedouin	Bedouin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 what	acl:relcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bird	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Bedouin	appos
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 cloak	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cloak	det
10	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Bedouin	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a Bedouin or a cloak					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 desert traveller, the wind is a cloak, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 traveller	det
2	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 traveller	compound
3	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cloak	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wind	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cloak	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cloak	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cloak	det
9	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 traveller	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 traveller	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the wind	a cloak					tree rules

Option 2

a cloak, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cloak	det
2	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bro	punct
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cloak	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a desert nomad, but the wind wears the cloak, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 nomad	det
2	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nomad	compound
3	nomad	nomad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wears	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wears	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 wears	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wind	det
7	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wears	nsubj
8	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cloak	det
10	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wears	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bro	punct
12	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cloak	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present	a desert nomad	the cloak and bro					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme

Option 4

a kind of tent, but the wind lives in it, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kind	det
2	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 tent	case
4	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lives	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 lives	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wind	det
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lives	nsubj
9	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 kind	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lives	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bro	punct
13	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the wind	a kind of tent and bro not said here		tent			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme kind=Location

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