Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays d…

oi, what was the princess busy with?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: oi · What happens: be · To what, where: princess

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1186 «Fairy Book, Jose and the White Horse, part 52: Jose pays debts, rises at court, and is sent to find the princess» 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	oi	oi	X	Foreign=Yes	6 princess	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 princess	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 princess	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 princess	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 princess	amod
8	with	with	ADP	_	7 busy	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 princess	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	oi	the princess					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

sweeping the yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 yard	det
3	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sweeping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	gerund		the yard					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme yard=Trajectory

Option 2

washing the linen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 linen	det
3	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 washing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	gerund		the linen					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linen=Patient

Option 3

feeding her hens in the yard by the barn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hens	nmod:poss
3	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 feeding	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 yard	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 yard	det
6	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 feeding	obl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 barn	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 barn	det
9	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 feeding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	gerund		her hens				in the yard; by the barn	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hen=Value in yard=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

feeding her hens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hens	nmod:poss
3	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 feeding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	gerund			her hens				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Recipient

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