Test 11 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Ball-Carrier, part 11: the boy is fatt…

Ngl, what was the Bad One's servant doing when the kid got picked?

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

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1210 «Indian Fairy Tales, Ball-Carrier, part 11: the boy is fattened up for a feast» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 servant	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 servant	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 servant	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 One	det
6	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 One	amod
7	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 servant	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 One	case
9	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ngl	appos
10	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 servant	acl
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 picked	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 kid	det
13	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 picked	nsubj:pass
14	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 picked	aux:pass
15	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 doing	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	Ngl	the Bad One's servant	tree rules
2	do	gerund	the Bad One's servant not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pick	past · passive		the kid	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweeping	sweeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Filling the bucket with water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bucket	det
3	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Filling	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Filling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	gerund		the bucket				with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bucket=Patient with water=Instrument

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Stirring the pot with a spoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stirring	stir	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pot	det
3	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stirring	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 spoon	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spoon	det
6	spoon	spoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stirring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stir	gerund		the pot				with a spoon	vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent pot=Patient with spoon=Co-Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Hanging the kettle over the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 kettle	det
3	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hanging	obj
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hanging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund		the kettle		the fire			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kettle=Theme over fire=Destination

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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