---
title: that wind was all talk, huh? — Aesop for Children, The North Wind and… · tree and pragmatics
description: that wind was all talk, huh? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 378 «Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun: a cloak settles the quarrel» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/378-pg19994-part17/t7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Aesop for Children, The North Wind and…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/378-pg19994-part17/) / t7

# Test 7 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun: a cloak se…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
that wind was all talk, huh?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** wind · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** talk

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 378 «Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun: a cloak settles the quarrel» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/378-pg19994-part17/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:378-pg19994-part17:t7:1
# text = that wind was all talk, huh?
1	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	huh	huh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | that wind | all talk |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yup, loud and empty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:378-pg19994-part17:t7:o1:1
# text = yup, loud and empty
1	yup	yup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, the wind had real strength and blew the cloak around

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:378-pg19994-part17:t7:o2:1
# text = nah, the wind had real strength and blew the cloak around
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	around	around	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the wind | real strength |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient |
| 2 | **blow around** | past | the wind *not said here* | the cloak |  |  |  | around *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent cloak=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yup, big mouth, no beef

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:378-pg19994-part17:t7:o3:1
# text = yup, big mouth, no beef
1	yup	yup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yup, he was loud and empty but he also really hurt the Traveler

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:378-pg19994-part17:t7:o4:1
# text = yup, he was loud and empty but he also really hurt the Traveler
1	yup	yup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	really	really	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	hurt	hurt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Traveler	traveler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | yup |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | yup *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hurt** | infinitive | he | the Traveler |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer traveler=Patient |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Aesop for Children, The North Wind and…, test 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/378-pg19994-part17/t6/)
- next →: [Aesop for Children, The North Wind and…, test 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/378-pg19994-part17/t8/)
- ↑ back to [Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun: a cloak settles the quarrel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/378-pg19994-part17/)