Test 5 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga…

Lol, what were the birds and bees doing to the mares?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: birds · What happens: be, do · To what, where: birds

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1515 «Red Fairy Book, Marya Morevna: Ivan outwits the Baba Yaga and rescues his bride» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 birds	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 birds	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bees	cc
8	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 birds	conj
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 birds	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 mares	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mares	det
12	mares	mare	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 doing	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 birds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the birds and bees					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the birds and bees not said here					to the mares	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 · ✓ the right answer

Pecking and stinging them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pecking	peck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 stinging	cc
3	stinging	sting	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Pecking	conj
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stinging	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peck	gerund							vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sting	gerund		them = they					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 2

Flapping and biting them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 biting	cc
3	biting	bite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Flapping	conj
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 biting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flap	gerund							vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bite	gerund		them = they					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

Nipping and buzzing at them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nipping	nip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 buzzing	cc
3	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Nipping	conj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 buzzing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nip	gerund							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	buzz	gerund						at them = they	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at they=Stimulus

Option 4

Chasing them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chasing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	gerund		them = they					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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