Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood…

So what was the fountain doing when they got there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fountain, they · What happens: be, do, get · To what, where: fountain

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1877 «Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, part 14: parted by a flood, saved by the Fairy» 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 what	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 fountain	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fountain	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fountain	det
5	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 fountain	acl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 got	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	ccomp
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 got	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fountain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past		the fountain		tree rules
2	do	gerund	the fountain not said here			tree rules
3	get	past	they		there	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

just sitting there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 sitting	advmod
2	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 sitting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund				there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

dry as dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 dust	case
3	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dry	obl

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

Option 3

gurgling away, all frothy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gurgling	gurgle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 all	compound
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 gurgling	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 gurgling	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
5	frothy	frothy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 all	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gurgle away	gerund						away property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

going mental, all bubbling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 bubbling	csubj
2	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 going	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 going	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 bubbling	nsubj
5	bubbling	bubble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund						mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bubble	gerund	all						vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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