Test 7 · ★ · Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, par…

Mad, what were the wood-nymphs doing all night long?

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

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1801 «Project Gutenberg 641, The Boys with the Golden Stars, part 1: an emperor hears three sisters' boasts and carries off Laptitza» 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 nymphs	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 nymphs	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 nymphs	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nymphs	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nymphs	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 wood	punct
8	nymphs	nymph	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Mad	obl
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 nymphs	acl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doing	obl:unmarked
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 doing	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the wood nymphs					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the wood nymphs not said here				night	long property	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

Dancing till dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	till	till	ADP	_	3 dawn	case
3	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dancing	nmod

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

Option 2

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 3

Feasting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feasting	feasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Spinning in a ring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 ring	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 ring	det
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spinning	obl

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

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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