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title: Which way did the wind finally blow, like, which direction? — Andersen's Tales, A Story from the San… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which way did the wind finally blow, like, which direction? 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, with the dep
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, A Story from the Sand-Hills, part 2: a y…

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Which way did the wind finally blow, like, which direction?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** way · **What happens:** do, blow · **To what, where:** wind

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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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/961-pg27200-part172/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:961-pg27200-part172:t8:1
# text = Which way did the wind finally blow, like, which direction?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	blow	blow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	12	det	_	_
12	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | 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 |

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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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north

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:961-pg27200-part172:t8:o1:1
# text = north
1	north	north	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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from the east

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:961-pg27200-part172:t8:o2:1
# text = from the east
1	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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south-west, nice and fair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:961-pg27200-part172:t8:o3:1
# text = south-west, nice and fair
1	south	south	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	west	west	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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south-east, mild and gusty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:961-pg27200-part172:t8:o4:1
# text = south-east, mild and gusty
1	south	south	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	gusty	gusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
```

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

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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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