Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to ston…

what was the tailor doing at his window?

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

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1483 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Faithful John, John is turned to stone and brought back at a dreadful price» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tailor	det
4	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 tailor	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 window	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 window	nmod:poss
8	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the tailor						tree rules
2	do	gerund	the tailor not said here			tailor's window			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 · ✓ the right answer

Sewing a waistcoat for dear life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 waistcoat	det
3	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sewing	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 life	case
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 life	amod
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sewing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	gerund		a waistcoat				for dear life	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent waistcoat=Material for life=Beneficiary

Option 2

Eating bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3

Mending a torn shirt for the king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mending	mend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shirt	det
3	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 shirt	amod
4	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mending	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mending	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mend	gerund		a torn shirt				for the king	tree rules
2	tear	participle							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Watching the flies buzz around the jam jar while he sat on the windowsill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 flies	amod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flies	det
3	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 buzz	nsubj
4	buzz	buzz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	around	around	ADP	_	8 jar	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 jar	det
7	jam	jam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jar	compound
8	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buzz	obl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 sat	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 buzz	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 windowsill	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 windowsill	det
14	windowsill	windowsill	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	watch	gerund			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	buzz	present	the Watching flies	the jam jar	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around jar=Location
3	sit	past	he	the windowsill	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on windowsill=Location

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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