Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John…

lol, what were the elves even doing out there?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: elves · What happens: be, do out · To what, where: elves

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1007 «Andersen's Tales, The Travelling Companion, part 218: John pays for a dead man's rest, then the salve mends a broken doll» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	8 doing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 elves	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 elves	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 elves	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 elves	det
6	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 doing	nsubj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 doing	advmod
8	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 doing	compound:prt
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 doing	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the elves					tree rules
2	do out	gerund	the elves			there			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

hunting for mushrooms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 mushrooms	case
3	mushrooms	mushroom	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 hunting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	gerund						for mushrooms	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for mushroom=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

dancing in the moonlight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 moonlight	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moonlight	det
4	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dancing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund				the moonlight			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in moonlight=Location

Option 3

partying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	partying	party	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	party	gerund							tree rules

Option 4

singing under the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 trees	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trees	det
4	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund				the trees			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location

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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