Test 12 · ★ · Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare i…

Mate, what was the wife doing with all the money?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate, wife · What happens: be, do · To what, where: wife

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1775 «Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water, part 2: a pot of gold, a fake fish and hare, and a wife who spends it all» 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	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wife	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 wife	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wife	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wife	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 wife	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 money	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 money	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 money	det
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the wife	the wife					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the wife not said here					with all money	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 · ✓ the right answer

Feasting loads of people daily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feasting	feast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Feasting	obj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 people	case
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 loads	nmod
5	daily	daily	ADV	_	1 Feasting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feast	gerund		loads of people				daily property	tree rules

Option 2

Buying clothes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	1 Buying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	gerund		clothes					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme

Option 3

Hosting feasts for many folk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hosting	host	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	feasts	feast	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hosting	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 folk	case
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 folk	amod
5	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hosting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	host	gerund		feasts				for many folk	vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Beneficiary

Option 4

Throwing parties for the poor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Throwing	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 poor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 poor	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Throwing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	gerund		parties				for the poor	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Theme

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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