Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimond brings home the r…

Wait, what were the savage peeps making the Prince do all day?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, savage · What happens: wait, be, make

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1895 «Fairy Tales, Rosimond, part 32: Rosimond brings home the real Prince and returns the ring to 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 peeps	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 peeps	obj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 peeps	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 savage	det
6	savage	savage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 peeps	nsubj
7	peeps	peep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
8	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 peeps	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Prince	det
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 do	nsubj
11	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 making	xcomp
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	obl:unmarked
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the savage	peep property	tree rules
3	make	gerund	the savage not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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

minding sheep in the cold fields all day and night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	minding	mind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 minding	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 fields	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fields	det
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fields	amod
6	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 minding	obl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 minding	obl:unmarked
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 night	cc
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 day	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mind	gerund		sheep		the cold fields	day		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme

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

minding sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	minding	mind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 minding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mind	gerund		sheep					vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme

Option 3

herding goats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	herding	herd	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 goats	amod
2	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	herd	gerund							vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

minding the sheep of the savage people on the hills from dawn to dusk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	minding	mind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sheep	det
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 minding	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 people	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 people	det
6	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sheep	nmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 hills	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hills	det
10	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 people	nmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 dawn	case
12	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 minding	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 dusk	case
14	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 minding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mind	gerund		the sheep of the savage people on the hills			dawn; dusk		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme

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