Test 10 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the K…

What was that fog bloke doing with his sack, like?

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

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1642 «Project Gutenberg 5615, How the Hermit Helped to Win the King's Daughter, part 31: three ships, a hermit and two strange helpers» 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	5 bloke	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bloke	cop
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 bloke	mark
4	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bloke	compound
5	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bloke	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 sack	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sack	nmod:poss
9	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	6 doing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bloke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		fog bloke					tree rules
2	do	gerund	fog bloke not said here					with his sack	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

Trying to bag fog, that's his job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 job	csubj
2	to	to	PART	_	4 fog	mark
3	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fog	compound
4	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Trying	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Trying	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 job	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 job	cop
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 job	nmod:poss
9	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund		bag fog					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	that	his job					tree rules

Option 2

Just sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 sleeping	advmod
2	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Selling fog, that's his trade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 trade	csubj
2	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Selling	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Selling	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 trade	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 trade	cop
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 trade	nmod:poss
7	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	gerund		fog					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fog=Theme
2	is a	present	that	his trade					tree rules

Option 4

Collecting rain, that's his job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Collecting	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 job	csubj
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Collecting	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Collecting	punct
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 job	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 job	cop
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 job	nmod:poss
7	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	gerund		rain					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rain=Theme
2	is a	present	that	his job					tree rules

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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