Test 6 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull: mice feast u…

bro, what were the wolves doing from far away?

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

This is test 6 · ★ 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	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wolves	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 wolves	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wolves	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolves	det
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 bro	conj
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 wolves	acl
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 far	case
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	7 doing	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bro and the wolves	the wolves					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the wolves not said here					away property	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

howling and yelping at the fire from a safe distance away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	howling	howl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 yelping	cc
3	yelping	yelp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 howling	conj
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yelping	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 distance	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 distance	det
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 distance	amod
10	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 yelping	obl
11	away	away	ADV	_	1 howling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	howl	gerund						away property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	yelp	gerund						from a safe distance; at the fire	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at fire=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

howling and yelping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	howling	howl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 yelping	cc
3	yelping	yelp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 howling	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	howl	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	yelp	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

pacing back and forth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pacing	pace	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 pacing	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 forth	cc
4	forth	forth	ADV	_	2 back	conj

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

Option 4

barking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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