Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Storm Shakes the Shield, part 1: gra…

That's so lame, what did the storm do to the weathercock?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: That, storm · What happens: be, do

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 994 «Andersen's Tales, The Storm Shakes the Shield, part 1: grandpa recalls the shield parade, then the gale tears signs from their places» 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 lame	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lame	cop
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 lame	advmod
4	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 do	obj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 storm	det
9	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lame	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 weathercock	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 weathercock	det
13	weathercock	weathercock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lame	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	That					lame property	tree rules
2	do	past · do-support	the storm					to the weathercock	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

made it bow down for good and stay bent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 made	obj
3	bow	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 made	xcomp
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 bow	compound:prt
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 good	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bow	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 stay	cc
8	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 made	conj
9	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	it		tree rules
2	bow down	infinitive		for good	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stay	present		bent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

made it spin about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 made	obj
3	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 made	xcomp
4	about	about	ADV	_	3 spin	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		it					tree rules
2	spin	infinitive						about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

broke it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 broke	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past		it					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

made it bow for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 made	obj
3	bow	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 made	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 good	case
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		it					tree rules
2	bow	infinitive						for good	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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