Test 11 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked n…

Mate, what was the King doing all day with the portrait?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: King · What happens: do · To what, where: Mate

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1526 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, part 23: the wicked nurse plans to swap her daughter for the Princess» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 doing	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doing	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 doing	nsubj
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Mate	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl:unmarked
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 portrait	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 portrait	det
12	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	the King	Mate			day	with the portrait	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 · ✓ the right answer

gazing at it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 gazing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gaze	gerund						at it	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme

Option 2

gazing at it all day long without rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 gazing	obl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gazing	obl:unmarked
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 gazing	advmod
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 rest	case
8	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gazing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gaze	gerund					day	without rest; at it; long property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

gazing at it and speaking to it all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 gazing	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 speaking	cc
5	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 gazing	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 speaking	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speaking	obl:unmarked
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 speaking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gaze	gerund						at it	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
2	speak speech: other	gerund			it		day	long property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to it=Co-Agent

Option 4

looking at it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						at it	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme

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