Test 7 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince es…

What was the sisters' scam at the inn, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: scam, inn

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1813 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Prince and the Doves: the prince escapes his father's trap, forgets his bride, and wins her back» 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	PRON	PronType=Int	6 scam	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scam	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scam	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 sisters	case
6	scam	scam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 inn	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 inn	det
9	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scam	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	6 scam	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 scam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the sisters's scam		the inn			tree rules

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

Selling horses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Selling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	gerund		horses					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

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

Selling doves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Selling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	gerund		doves					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Theme

Option 3

Selling doves to travellers at the inn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Selling	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 travellers	case
4	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Selling	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 inn	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 inn	det
7	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Selling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	gerund		doves	travellers	the inn			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent dove=Theme to traveller=Recipient at inn=Asset

Option 4

Stealing horses and selling them at the market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stealing	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 selling	cc
4	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Stealing	conj
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 selling	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 market	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 market	det
8	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 selling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund		horses					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme
2	sell	gerund		horses = horse		the market			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Theme at market=Asset

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