Test 9 · ★ · Grimm, Rumpelstiltskin, part 31: the wicked pair are punis…

What was the little Man doing when the messenger spotted him, lol?

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

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 128 «Grimm, Rumpelstiltskin, part 31: the wicked pair are punished, and a Miller's daughter must spin straw into gold» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 Man	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Man	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Man	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Man	amod
5	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 Man	acl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 spotted	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 messenger	det
9	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spotted	nsubj
10	spotted	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 spotted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spotted	punct
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 doing	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the little Man		tree rules
2	do	gerund	the little Man not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	spot	past	the messenger		Man	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination

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

Running round the big oak tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	round	round	ADP	_	6 tree	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tree	amod
5	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	compound
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Running	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund				the big oak tree			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round tree=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Dancing on one leg, shouting rhymes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 leg	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 leg	nummod
4	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dancing	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shouting	punct
6	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Dancing	conj
7	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 shouting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund				one leg			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Location
2	shout speech: express	gerund		rhymes					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Topic

Option 3

Hopping about, singing songs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	about	about	ADV	_	1 Hopping	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 singing	punct
4	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Hopping	advcl
5	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 singing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop about	gerund						about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express	gerund		songs					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 4

Sleeping, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sleeping	punct
3	lol	lol	INTJ	_	1 Sleeping	discourse

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

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