Test 4 · ★ · Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of t…

Fr, what was the old lady doing by the fire?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr, old lady · What happens: be, do · To what, where: old lady

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1758 «Tales of pg641, The Three Princes and The Goat's Ears of the Emperor Trojan, part 9: the witch's rod, the brothers freed, a barber's secret» 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lady	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 lady	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lady	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lady	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fr	conj
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 lady	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 fire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Fr and the old lady	the old lady					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the old lady not said here					by the fire	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 · ✓ the right answer

raking sticks and leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	raking	rake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 raking	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 leaves	cc
4	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sticks	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rake	gerund		sticks and leaves					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent stick=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

raking sticks and leaves into a pile near the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	raking	rake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 leaves	csubj
2	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 raking	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	1 raking	cc
4	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 pile	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pile	det
7	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	obl
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leaves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rake	gerund		sticks					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent stick=Initial_Location
2	leave	present	raking					into a pile result; near the fire	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into pile=Result

Option 3

gathering wood for fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gathering	gather	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gathering	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 fire	case
4	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gathering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	gerund		wood				for fire	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wood=Theme for fire=Beneficiary

Option 4

boiling water in a pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 boiling	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 pot	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pot	det
5	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 boiling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	gerund		water				in a pot	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent water=Patient in pot=Instrument

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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