Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches…

what was Peter, like, doing in the wood?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Peter · What happens: be, do · To what, where: Peter, wood

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1902 «Fairy Tales, The Magic Swan, part 1: Peter's swan catches a crowd and the Princess laughs at last» 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	3 Peter	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Peter	cop
3	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
5	like	like	INTJ	_	3 Peter	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 Peter	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 wood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wood	det
10	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 Peter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Peter					tree rules
2	do	gerund	Peter not said here			the wood			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

gathering sticks and crying loudly for his mum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gathering	gather	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 gathering	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 crying	cc
4	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 gathering	conj
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 crying	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 mum	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	gerund		sticks					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
2	cry speech: express	gerund						for his mum; loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for mum=Recipient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

walking alone looking for the swan in the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 looking	csubj
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 walking	advmod
3	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 swan	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 swan	det
6	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looking	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund						alone property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	gerund	walking			the trees		for the swan	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for swan=Theme in tree=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

gathering sticks and crying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gathering	gather	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 gathering	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 crying	cc
4	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 gathering	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	gerund		sticks					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
2	cry speech: express	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

singing by the stream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund						by the stream	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by stream=Location

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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