Test 11 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his…

what were the young lasses doing, all giggly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: young lasses · What happens: do · To what, where: all

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1072 «Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his servant reach a noisy feast in Leinster» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 doing	obj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lasses	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lasses	amod
5	lasses	lass	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 doing	nsubj
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 doing	obj
9	giggly	giggly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 all	amod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	the young lasses	all					tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

singing till the sun rose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 rose	csubj
2	till	till	ADP	_	4 sun	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 singing	obl
5	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund					till the sun		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rise	past	singing						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

giggling till out of puff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	giggling	giggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	till	till	ADP	_	5 puff	case
3	out	out	ADP	_	5 puff	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 puff	case
5	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 giggling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	giggle	gerund					till puff		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

giggling till out of puff near the door of the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	giggling	giggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	till	till	ADP	_	5 puff	case
3	out	out	ADP	_	5 puff	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 puff	case
5	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 giggling	obl
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 door	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 giggling	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hall	det
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 door	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	giggle	gerund				the door of the hall	till puff		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

giggling till out of puff and then giggling again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	giggling	giggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	till	till	ADP	_	5 puff	case
3	out	out	ADP	_	5 puff	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 puff	case
5	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 giggling	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 giggling	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 giggling	advmod
8	giggling	giggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 giggling	conj
9	again	again	ADV	_	8 giggling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	giggle	gerund					till puff		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	giggle	gerund					then; again		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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