Test 5 · ★ · pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the…

What was that golden cock doing, mate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: golden cock · What happens: do

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1752 «pg641, Elsa, part 3: Elsa stays with the lady, learns the thirteenth dish is forbidden, and must leave the house» 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	6 doing	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	aux
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 doing	mark
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cock	amod
5	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	nsubj
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	vocative
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	golden cock					mate vocative	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

crowing and flapping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	crowing	crow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 flapping	cc
3	flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 crowing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crow	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	flap	gerund							vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

eating the cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cake	det
3	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		the cake					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient

Option 3

sleeping on the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

hiding in the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	gerund				the sea			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sea=Location

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