Test 3 · ★ · Irish Tales, The Wooing of Delvcaem, part 34: Art crosses…

Bro, why did the lions just sit there growling?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: lions · What happens: do, sit, growl

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1066 «Irish Tales, The Wooing of Delvcaem, part 34: Art crosses monsters and dangers, then fights Dog Head and Morgan» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lions	det
6	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sit	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 sit	advmod
8	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 sit	advmod
10	growling	growl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sit	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	do	past			Bro vocative	tree rules
2	sit	present	the lions	there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	growl	gerund	the lions not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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

They were tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tired	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					tired property	tree rules

Option 2

They were asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asleep	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	cop
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					asleep property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They were waiting to eat the beasts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waiting	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waiting	aux
3	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 waiting	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beasts	det
7	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	They						tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	They not said here	the beasts					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Patient

Option 4

They were bored of the cold stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bored	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	aux:pass
3	bored	bore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 stone	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stone	det
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stone	amod
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bored	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bore	past · passive		They				of the cold stone	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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