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title: why'd Zephyr make the storm, was it petty or what? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of… · tree and pragmatics
description: why'd Zephyr make the storm, was it petty or what? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 933 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 144: the lost prince shelters in the Winds' cave and hears the North and West Winds tell their adventures» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depende
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# Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 144:…

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why'd Zephyr make the storm, was it petty or what?

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

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 933 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 144: the lost prince shelters in the Winds' cave and hears the North and West Winds tell their adventures» 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/933-pg27200-part144/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:933-pg27200-part144:t12:1
# text = why'd Zephyr make the storm, was it petty or what?
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	_
3	Zephyr	Zephyr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	petty	petty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | infinitive | Zephyr | the storm |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | past | storm | petty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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he wanted to sink boats

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:933-pg27200-part144:t12:o1:1
# text = he wanted to sink boats
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	sink	sink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **sink** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | he *not said here* | boats |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boat=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the buffalo drop made him happy so he kept blowing harder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:933-pg27200-part144:t12:o2:1
# text = the buffalo drop made him happy so he kept blowing harder
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	harder	hard	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the buffalo drop | him *= he* |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
| 2 | **keep** | past | drop |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **blow** | gerund | drop *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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he hated that buffalo a lot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:933-pg27200-part144:t12:o3:1
# text = he hated that buffalo a lot
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
4	buffalo	buffalo	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | past | he | a lot |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **buffalo** | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the buffalo drop made him happy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:933-pg27200-part144:t12:o4:1
# text = the buffalo drop made him happy
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the buffalo drop | him *= he* |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |

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**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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