Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg641), Dotterine, part 19: the feast, the sw…

What job did she get, like, a dead boring one?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: job · What happens: get · To what, where: dead boring one

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1768 «Fairy Tales (pg641), Dotterine, part 19: the feast, the swallow and the secret princess; a new tale begins» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 job	det
2	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	5 get	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 one	det
10	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
11	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 one	amod
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	what job	a dead boring one					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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

Tending the family's garden plot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tending	tend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 family	det
3	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plot	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 family	case
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plot	compound
6	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tending	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tend	gerund		the family's garden plot					vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Theme
2	plot		the family						nom plot «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Looking after the children and making every meal for the household each evening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 children	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Looking	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 making	cc
6	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Looking	conj
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 meal	det
8	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 making	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 household	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 household	det
11	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 making	obl
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 evening	det
13	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Looking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund					after the children; evening		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	make	gerund		every meal				for the household	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent meal=Product for household=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cleaning and sweeping the house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cleaning	clean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 sweeping	cc
3	sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Cleaning	conj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sweeping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clean	gerund							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sweep	gerund		the house					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory

Option 4

Feeding the farm animals daily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 animals	det
3	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 animals	compound
4	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Feeding	obj
5	daily	daily	ADV	_	1 Feeding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	gerund			the farm animals			daily property	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Recipient

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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