Test 12 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast u…

bro, what were the mice doing before the eyes came?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, mice · What happens: be, do, come · To what, where: mice

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1272 «Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast until fiery eyes creep into their skull» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mice	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 mice	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mice	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mice	det
6	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 bro	appos
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 mice	acl
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 eyes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eyes	det
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 doing	obl
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	past	bro	the mice		tree rules
2	do	gerund	the mice not said here		before the eyes	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	bro			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

dancing in a ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 ring	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ring	det
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dancing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund				a ring			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ring=Location

Option 3

eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

singing in a circle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 circle	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 circle	det
4	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund				a circle			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Location

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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