Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Darling, part 65: Darling kicks his do…

What were the courtiers doing at supper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: courtiers · What happens: be, do · To what, where: courtiers, supper

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1478 «Fairy Tales, Prince Darling, part 65: Darling kicks his dog, is pricked by the ring, and Celia vanishes from her locked room» 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	4 courtiers	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 courtiers	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 courtiers	det
4	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 courtiers	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 supper	case
7	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 courtiers	punct

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

Playing games and gossiping about the shepherdess

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Playing	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 gossiping	cc
4	gossiping	gossip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Playing	conj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 shepherdess	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shepherdess	det
7	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gossiping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund		games					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
2	gossip speech: other	gerund						about the shepherdess	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about shepherdess=Topic

Option 2

Drinking and joking about the nurse's cooking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 joking	cc
3	joking	joke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Drinking	conj
4	about	about	ADP	_	8 cooking	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nurse	det
6	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cooking	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 nurse	case
8	cooking	cooking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 joking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	drink	gerund			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	joke speech: other	gerund		about the nurse's cooking	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cooking=Topic
3	cook		the nurse		nom cooking «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Eating roast pork

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pork	compound
3	pork	pork	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eating	obj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Getting Darling wasted on wine and hyping his rage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	Darling	darling	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wine	amod
3	wasted	waste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 wine	amod
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 wine	case
5	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Getting	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hyping	cc
7	hyping	hype	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Getting	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 rage	nmod:poss
9	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hyping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	get	gerund		Darling wasted wine	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wine=Stimulus
2	waste	participle			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	hype	gerund		his rage	tree rules
4	rage		his = he		nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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