Test 11 · ★ · Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 3…

Fr, what was the boy doing with the cherries?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr, boy · What happens: be, do · To what, where: boy

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1233 «Folk Tales, How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones, part 34: a boy warns the animals on the way to the miller's wedding, and they ignore him» 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 boy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boy	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fr	appos
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 boy	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 cherries	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cherries	det
10	cherries	cherry	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 doing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Fr	the boy					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the boy not said here					with the cherries	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 · ← Mova's choice

shaking the branches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 branches	det
3	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 shaking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	gerund		the branches					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent branch=Patient

Option 2

picking them off a tree for the miller's feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 picking	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 picking	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 picking	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 feast	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 miller	det
8	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feast	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 miller	case
10	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 picking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick off	gerund		them = they				for the miller's feast	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary tree=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

picking them off a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 picking	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 picking	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 picking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick off	gerund		them = they					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary tree=Theme

Option 4

throwing them at the fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 throwing	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 fox	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 throwing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	gerund		them = they				at the fox	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme at fox=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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