Test 13 · ★ · pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runa…

Mate, what did the magic ball keep doing before every danger came?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate, danger · What happens: ball, keep, do, come

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1766 «pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runaways escape the goblins with the magic ball and reach the world again» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ball	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 ball	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ball	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ball	det
6	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ball	compound
7	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
8	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keep	xcomp
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 danger	det
12	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 doing	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	ball	past · do-support	Mate and the magic ball	tree rules
2	keep	present	Mate and the magic ball	tree rules
3	do	gerund	Mate and the magic ball not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	past	every danger	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Hopping about wildly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 wildly	advmod
3	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	1 Hopping	advmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Moving in her hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 hand	case
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Moving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	gerund				her hand			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in hand=Trajectory

Option 3

Singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Glowing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glowing	glow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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