Test 12 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, Mongan, part 40: a sad king and his…

what were the wee lads doing, all whispering and pointing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wee lads, all · What happens: do, whisper, point

This is test 12 · ★ 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 lads	det
4	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lads	amod
5	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 doing	nsubj
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 whispering	punct
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 whispering	nsubj
9	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 doing	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 pointing	cc
11	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 whispering	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	the wee lads	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	whisper speech: assert	gerund	all	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	point	gerund	all not said here	vn wink-40.3.1 «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

whispering and pointing everywhere at the priests

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 pointing	cc
3	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 whispering	conj
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	1 whispering	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 priests	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 priests	det
7	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 whispering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	gerund				the priests		everywhere property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at priest=Location
2	point	gerund							vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

whispering and pointing everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 pointing	cc
3	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 whispering	conj
4	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	1 whispering	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	gerund						everywhere property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	point	gerund							vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

running in circles around the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 circles	case
3	circles	circle	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 running	obl
4	around	around	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 running	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund				circles		around the fire	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory

Option 4

whispering, giggling and pointing at every stranger in the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 giggling	punct
3	giggling	giggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 whispering	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 pointing	cc
5	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 whispering	conj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 stranger	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 stranger	det
8	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pointing	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hall	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hall	det
11	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pointing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	where	other	roles by
1	whisper speech: assert	gerund			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	giggle	gerund			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	point	gerund	every stranger	in the hall	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in hall=Theme

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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