Test 10 · ★ · Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget…

What was the stork dancing for again?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: stork · What happens: be, dance

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1872 «Hauff's Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 9: the storks forget the magic word and spend a night in a haunted ruin» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stork	det
4	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	dancing	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stork	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 again	case
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 dancing	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the stork						tree rules
2	dance	gerund	the stork not said here						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Her dad's guests, and she was doing a proper posh balance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guests	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dad	case
4	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 doing	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 doing	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 doing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 doing	aux
9	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 guests	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 balance	det
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 balance	amod
12	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 balance	amod
13	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	she	a proper posh balance					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Eventuality

Option 2

Her dad's servants, and she was showing off her wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 servants	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dad	case
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 showing	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 showing	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 showing	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 showing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 showing	aux
9	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	off	off	ADP	_	12 wings	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wings	nmod:poss
12	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 showing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show off	past · progressive	Her dad's servants	her wings					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wing=Recipient

Option 3

Her dad's cook, and she was doing a fancy hop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cook	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dad	case
4	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 doing	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 doing	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 doing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 doing	aux
9	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 cook	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hop	det
11	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hop	amod
12	hop	hop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	she	a fancy hop					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hop=Eventuality

Option 4

Her dad's guests, and she was doing a proper posh balance on one leg in front of the whole court

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guests	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 dad	case
4	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 doing	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 doing	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 doing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 doing	aux
9	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 guests	acl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 balance	det
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 balance	amod
12	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 balance	amod
13	balance	balance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doing	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 leg	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 leg	nummod
16	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 balance	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 front	case
18	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doing	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 court	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 court	det
21	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 court	amod
22	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	she	a proper posh balance		one leg		in front of the whole court	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balance=Eventuality

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