Test 4 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, th…

Lol, what was the beer doing while they were all faffing about?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: beer, they · What happens: be, do, faff about · To what, where: beer

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1547 «Tales of Many Lands, The Six Sillies: a foolish family, three simpletons and a magic cloth» 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	_	6 beer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 beer	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 beer	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beer	det
6	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 beer	acl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 faffing	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 faffing	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 faffing	aux
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 faffing	advmod
12	faffing	faff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 doing	advcl
13	about	about	ADP	_	12 faffing	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 beer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the beer		tree rules
2	do	gerund	the beer not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	faff about	past · progressive	they		all property	tree rules

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

hopping on the table top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 top	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 top	det
4	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 top	compound
5	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hopping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop	gerund				the table top			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Trajectory

Option 2

rolling under the bench

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 bench	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bench	det
4	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 rolling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	gerund				the bench			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under bench=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

running all over the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	all	all	ADV	_	1 running	advmod
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 floor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 floor	det
5	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 running	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund				the floor		all property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over floor=Trajectory

Option 4

spilled on the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spilled	spill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 floor	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 floor	det
4	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 spilled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spill	participle				the floor			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=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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