Test 6 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: the king's hunt and t…

Yo, what was the old hermit doing by the stream?

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

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1253 «Indian Fairy Tales, Puruna, part 54: the king's hunt and the hermit's prophecy» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 hermit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 hermit	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 hermit	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hermit	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hermit	amod
7	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 hermit	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 stream	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stream	det
11	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 hermit	punct

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

washing his old robes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 robes	nmod:poss
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 robes	amod
4	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 washing	obj

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

Option 2

fishing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

chucking dry leaves in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chucking	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 in	csubj
2	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 leaves	amod
3	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 chucking	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	gerund		dry leaves					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme

Option 4

praying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	praying	pray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	gerund							vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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