Test 4 · ★ · Pink Fairy Book, The White Dove, part 1: two reckless prin…

Bruv, what was her first job for him?

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

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1653 «Pink Fairy Book, The White Dove, part 1: two reckless princes promise their unborn brother to a witch to escape a storm» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 job	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 job	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 job	cop
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 job	nmod:poss
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 job	amod
7	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bruv	appos
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 job	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bruv	Bruv's first job				for him = he	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

picking feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 picking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	gerund		feathers					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient

Option 2

plucking birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	plucking	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 birds	amod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pluck	gerund							vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 3

sweeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

gathering wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gathering	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 wood	amod
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	gerund							vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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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