Test 3 · ★ · Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 4: the p…

lol what was the wind doing on the floor?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wind · What happens: be, do · To what, where: wind, floor

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1098 «Ruthenian Folk-Tales, The Story of the Wind, part 4: the poor man gets a magic sack and loses it in a tavern» 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	_	5 wind	discourse
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 wind	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wind	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 wind	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 floor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wind	punct

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

snoring loudly and shaking the whole hut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	snoring	snore	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 snoring	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 shaking	cc
4	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 snoring	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hut	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hut	amod
7	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shaking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snore	gerund						loudly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shake	gerund		the whole hut					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hut=Patient

Option 2

sitting up and staring at the corn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 sitting	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 staring	cc
4	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 sitting	conj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 corn	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 corn	det
7	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 staring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit up	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stare	gerund						at the corn	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at corn=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

lying flat on boards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	flat	flat	ADV	_	1 lying	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 boards	case
4	boards	board	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund				boards		flat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on board=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

chilling stretched out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chilling	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stretched	aux:pass
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 stretched	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch out	gerund · passive							vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»

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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