Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses hi…

what was the Wind's mum busy doing, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, do

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1896 «Fairy Tales, The Snuff-Box, part 33: a poor youth loses his magic box and goes looking for it across the sky» 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	7 busy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 busy	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Wind	det
4	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 mum	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Wind	case
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 busy	nsubj
7	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 busy	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	8 doing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 busy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						busy property	tree rules
2	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 · ← Mova's choice

washing clothes by the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	1 washing	obj
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 washing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	gerund		clothes				by the river	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient

Option 2

sweeping floors with a broom

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sweeping	sweep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 sweeping	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 broom	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 broom	det
5	broom	broom	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sweeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep	gerund		floors				with a broom	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Trajectory

Option 3

pouring wine for all the guests at the feast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pouring	pour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pouring	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 guests	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 guests	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guests	det
6	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 pouring	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 feast	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 feast	det
9	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pouring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	gerund		wine		the feast		for all guests	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wine=Patient for guest=Beneficiary

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

filling barrels with water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	barrels	barrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 filling	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 filling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	gerund		barrels				with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent barrel=Patient with water=Instrument

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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