Test 13 · ★ · Tales of the Punjab, Why the Fish Laughed, part 1: the que…

Dude, what's a fisherwoman even doing on the street?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude, fisherwoman · What happens: be, do · To what, where: fisherwoman, street

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1849 «Tales of the Punjab, Why the Fish Laughed, part 1: the queen's fish laughs and the vizier's son sets off» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fisherwoman	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 fisherwoman	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fisherwoman	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fisherwoman	det
6	fisherwoman	fisherwoman	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	appos
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 doing	advmod
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fisherwoman	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 street	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 street	det
11	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Dude	a fisherwoman					tree rules
2	do	gerund	a fisherwoman not said here			the street			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

Walking about the city streets looking for customers to buy her catch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	5 streets	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 streets	det
4	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 streets	compound
5	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Walking	obl
6	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 streets	acl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 customers	case
8	customers	customer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 looking	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 buy	mark
10	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 looking	advcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 catch	nmod:poss
12	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund			about the city streets	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about street=Trajectory
2	look	gerund	the city streets not said here		for customers	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for customer=Theme
3	buy	to-infinitive	the city streets not said here	her catch		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent catch=Theme

Option 2

Hunting for fish in the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 fish	case
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hunting	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 river	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hunting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	gerund				the river		for fish	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for fish=Theme in river=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Selling fish by crying out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Selling	obj
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 crying	mark
4	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Selling	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 crying	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	gerund		fish					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
2	cry out speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Carrying fish to the palace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carrying	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 palace	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 palace	det
5	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carrying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	gerund		fish		the palace			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fish=Theme to palace=Destination

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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