Test 9 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Owen and Luned, Owen's lion helps him…

Yo, what were the youths doing at the fire?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youths · What happens: be, do · To what, where: youths, fire

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1327 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Owen and Luned, Owen's lion helps him win Luned back from the giant and the captors» 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	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 youths	advmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 youths	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 youths	det
6	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 youths	acl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 youths	punct

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

Preparing to throw Owen in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 throw	mark
3	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Preparing	xcomp
4	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 throw	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prepare	gerund							vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
2	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive		Owen		it			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent owen=Theme in it=Destination

Option 2

Getting ready to throw poor Luned onto the flames

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Getting	xcomp
3	to	to	PART	_	4 throw	mark
4	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ready	xcomp
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Luned	amod
6	Luned	Luned	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 throw	obj
7	onto	onto	ADP	_	9 flames	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flames	det
9	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 throw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund						ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	throw	to-infinitive		poor Luned		the flames			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent luned=Theme onto flame=Destination

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Tying Luned up and preparing to chuck her on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tying	tie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	Luned	lun	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Tying	xcomp
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 Luned	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 preparing	cc
5	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Tying	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 chuck	mark
7	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 preparing	xcomp
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chuck	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 chuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tie	gerund			tree rules
2	lun up	participle			tree rules
3	prepare	gerund			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
4	chuck not said to happen	to-infinitive	her = she	it	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent she=Theme on it=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Getting ready to chuck Luned on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Getting	xcomp
3	to	to	PART	_	4 chuck	mark
4	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ready	xcomp
5	Luned	Luned	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 chuck	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	gerund						ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	chuck	to-infinitive		Luned		it			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent luned=Theme on it=Destination

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