Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded…

Ha, what did Whitey finally stop doing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, stop · To what, where: Whitey

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Whitey	Whitey	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
6	finally	finally	ADV	_	7 stop	advmod
7	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stop	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whitey		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whitey=Eventuality
2	stop	present		finally property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	do	gerund			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

Eating slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Eating	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund						slowly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Being greedy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 greedy	cop
2	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	gerund						greedy property	tree rules

Option 3

Always pushing in front at the dinner table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 pushing	advmod
2	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 front	case
4	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushing	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 table	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 table	det
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 table	compound
8	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	gerund				front		at the dinner table; always property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at table=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Taking the biggest piece of bread every single time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 piece	det
3	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 piece	amod
4	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 bread	case
6	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 piece	nmod
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 time	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Taking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		the biggest piece of bread			time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=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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