Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla,…

what was Potentilla doing when he first saw her?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Potentilla · What happens: do, see · To what, where: her

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1879 «Fairy Tales, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, part 1: Narcissus finds the hidden princess and falls in love» 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	4 doing	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
3	Potentilla	Potentilla	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 doing	nsubj
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 saw	advmod
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	Potentilla						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	see	past	Potentilla	her = she				first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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

sitting by the river washing her hair, all chill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	4 river	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sitting	obl
5	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 sitting	conj
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hair	nmod:poss
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 washing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 sitting	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 chill	det
10	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund		all chill				by the river	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by river=Location
2	wash	gerund		her hair					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient

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

weaving forget-me-nots, all chill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	weaving	weave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 chill	csubj
2	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 weaving	xcomp
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 me	punct
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 forget	obj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 me	punct
6	nots	not	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 forget	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 weaving	punct
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 chill	det
9	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weave	gerund							tree rules
2	forget	infinitive		me					tree rules

Option 3

weaving a garland of forget-me-nots by the brook, all chill

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	weaving	weave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 garland	det
3	garland	garland	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 weaving	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 forget	case
5	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 garland	acl
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 me	punct
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 forget	obj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 me	punct
9	nots	not	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forget	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 brook	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brook	det
12	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 weaving	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 chill	punct
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 chill	det
15	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brook	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weave	gerund		a garland				by the brook and all chill	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garland=Product
2	forget	infinitive	a garland not said here	me					tree rules

Option 4

gathering flowers, all chill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gathering	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 flowers	amod
2	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chill	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 chill	det
5	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flowers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	gerund							vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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