Test 12 · ★ · Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: thieves flee fro…

sick, what was the countryman doing with the parson?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: countryman · What happens: be, do · To what, where: countryman

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 108 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: thieves flee from what they think is the Evil One» 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	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 countryman	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 countryman	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 countryman	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 countryman	det
6	countryman	countryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sick	conj
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 countryman	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 parson	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 parson	det
10	parson	parson	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the countryman					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the countryman not said here					with the parson	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

Lifting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	gerund							vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Carrying him on his back across the field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Carrying	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 back	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 back	nmod:poss
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carrying	obl
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 field	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 field	det
8	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carrying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund		him = he		his back		across the field	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Carrying him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Carrying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund		him = he					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Pushing a cart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cart	det
3	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pushing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	gerund		a cart					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=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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