Test 3 · ★ · pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack,…

Wait, what was the peasant doing when the second girl showed up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, second girl · What happens: wait, do, show up

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1777 «pg641, The Envious Neighbour, part 1: the peasant's sack, then a dog who digs up gold and is killed by a greedy neighbour» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 doing	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doing	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 doing	det
6	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 doing	compound
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	advcl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 showed	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 girl	det
10	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 girl	amod
11	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 showed	nsubj
12	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doing	advcl
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 showed	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past · progressive	you not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	show up	past	the second girl	vn appear-48.1.1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Washing his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Washing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	gerund		his head					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Option 3

Shaving his beard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shaving	shave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 beard	nmod:poss
3	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shaving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shave	gerund		his beard					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beard=Patient

Option 4

Sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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