Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor: the bees steal the twelve ma…

What were the two kids doing with the sheep all day?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two kids · What happens: be, do · To what, where: two kids

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1876 «Fairy Book, Prince Mirliflor: the bees steal the twelve maidens, and Rosanella returns to marry the Prince» 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	5 kids	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kids	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kids	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 kids	nummod
5	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kids	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 sheep	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sheep	det
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 doing	obl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 day	det
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obl:unmarked
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 kids	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the two kids					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the two kids not said here				day	with the sheep	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 · ✓ the right answer

Grazing them and chilling in the shade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grazing	graze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Grazing	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 chilling	cc
4	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Grazing	conj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 shade	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shade	det
7	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chilling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	graze	gerund		them = they					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer
2	chill	gerund				the shade			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Herding them to the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Herding	herd	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Herding	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Herding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	herd	gerund		them = they				to the river	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Patient to river=Co-Patient

Option 3

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.

Option 4

Watching them graze by the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 graze	csubj
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Watching	obj
3	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 lake	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lake	det
6	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 graze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund		them = they					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	graze	imperative	you not said here					by the lake	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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