Test 5 · ★ · Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the Physician Douban, p…

Lol, what were the slaves doing under the parrot's cage?

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

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 166 «Arabian Nights, The Greek King and the Physician Douban, part 6: the king doubts the vizir, then condemns the physician to death» 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 slaves	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 slaves	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 slaves	det
6	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 slaves	acl
8	under	under	ADP	_	12 cage	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 parrot	det
10	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cage	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 parrot	case
12	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 slaves	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the slaves					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the slaves not said here			the parrot's cage			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

turning a hand-mill round and round, grinding flour for the morning meal

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mill	det
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mill	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 hand	punct
5	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turning	obj
6	round	round	ADV	_	1 turning	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 round	cc
8	round	round	ADV	_	6 round	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 grinding	punct
10	grinding	grind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 turning	conj
11	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grinding	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 meal	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 meal	det
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 meal	compound
15	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grinding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund		a hand mill				round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mill=Theme
2	grind	gerund		flour				for the morning meal	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flour=Material for meal=Beneficiary

Option 2

turning a hand-mill round and round while singing a tune

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mill	det
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mill	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 hand	punct
5	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turning	obj
6	round	round	ADV	_	1 turning	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 round	cc
8	round	round	ADV	_	6 round	conj
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 singing	mark
10	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 turning	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tune	det
12	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 singing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund		a hand mill				round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mill=Theme
2	sing speech: express	gerund		a tune					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

turning a hand-mill round and round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mill	det
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mill	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 hand	punct
5	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turning	obj
6	round	round	ADV	_	1 turning	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 round	cc
8	round	round	ADV	_	6 round	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund		a hand mill				round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mill=Theme

Option 4

grinding grain for the household

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grinding	grind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 grinding	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 household	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 household	det
5	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 grinding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grind	gerund		grain				for the household	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent grain=Material for household=Beneficiary

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