Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, A Story from the Sand-Hills, part 2: a y…
Which way did the wind finally blow, like, which direction?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: way · What happens: do, blow · To what, where: wind
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 961 «Andersen's Tales, A Story from the Sand-Hills, part 2: a young Spanish couple sails toward Russia, but calm weather and then a storm blow their ship north» 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wind | det |
| 5 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 7 blow | advmod |
| 7 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 9 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 7 blow | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 direction | punct |
| 11 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 12 direction | det |
| 12 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 like | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | which way | the wind | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | blow | present | which way not said here | finally property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent like=Patient |
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
north
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | north | north | ADV | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
from the east
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 east | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 east | det |
| 3 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
south-west, nice and fair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | south | south | ADV | _ | 5 nice | advmod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 south | punct |
| 3 | west | west | ADV | _ | 5 nice | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 nice | punct |
| 5 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fair | cc |
| 7 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nice | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
south-east, mild and gusty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 east | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 south | punct |
| 3 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mild | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mild | punct |
| 5 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gusty | cc |
| 7 | gusty | gusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mild | conj |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/961-pg27200-part172/t8/