Test 6 · ★ · pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes s…

What was Maurice's mam doing during the dance, ha?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mam · What happens: do

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1304 «pg3454, The Wonderful Tune: Maurice Connor's magic pipes set fish, feet and folk dancing» 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	6 doing	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	aux
3	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 mam	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Maurice	case
5	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	nsubj
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	during	during	ADP	_	9 dance	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dance	det
9	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ha	punct
11	ha	ha	INTJ	_	6 doing	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	Maurice's mam				during the dance		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Watching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund							vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Stamping on the wooden floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stamping	stamp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 floor	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 floor	amod
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stamping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stamp	gerund				the wooden floor			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Dancing like a young girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	5 girl	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 girl	det
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 girl	amod
5	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dancing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	gerund						like a young girl	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Cheering from the back row

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheering	cheer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	5 row	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 row	det
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 row	compound
5	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cheering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer	gerund				the back row			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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