Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the Pea: a pea tests a…

Mate, what's the storm like in that bit?

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

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 951 «Andersen's Tales, The Princess and the Pea: a pea tests a real princess» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 storm	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 storm	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 storm	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 storm	det
6	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 bit	case
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 bit	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 bit	det
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 storm	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mate and the storm	the storm				like that bit	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

Wind and rain and some thunder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 rain	cc
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wind	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 thunder	cc
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 thunder	det
6	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wind	conj

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

Option 2

Rain and wind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 wind	cc
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rain	conj

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

Option 3

Loud thunder and heavy hail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thunder	amod
2	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hail	cc
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hail	amod
5	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thunder	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Thunder, lightning and pouring rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lightning	punct
3	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Thunder	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pouring	cc
5	pouring	pour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Thunder	conj
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pouring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	gerund		rain					vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Patient

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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