Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded…

Mate, what gross thing did Browny keep doing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1887 «Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded in the kettle» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 keep	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 keep	obj
4	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	nsubj:outer
6	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 keep	aux
7	Browny	Browny	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 keep	nsubj
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 doing	aux
9	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	infinitive	Mate						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

Digging holes under the fence every morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Digging	obj
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 fence	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fence	det
5	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Digging	obl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 morning	det
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Digging	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	gerund		holes		the fence	morning		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Theme under fence=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Refusing to come in when called at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Refusing	refuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 called	csubj:pass
2	to	to	PART	_	3 come	mark
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Refusing	xcomp
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 come	advmod
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 called	advmod
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 called	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	refuse	gerund			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not come in	to-infinitive			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call speech: assert	participle	Refusing	night	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Stealing the eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eggs	det
3	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stealing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund		the eggs					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location egg=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Rolling in the mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 mud	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mud	det
4	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rolling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	gerund				the mud			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Trajectory

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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