Test 4 · ★ · Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' ques…

ok what was the Giant making everyone do all day, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: be, make, do · To what, where: everyone

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1920 «Yellow Fairy Book, Princess Placida: the two cousins' quests end in joy» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	5 Giant	discourse
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 Giant	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 Giant	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Giant	det
5	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 Giant	advcl
7	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 making	obj
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 making	xcomp
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 day	vocative
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 Giant	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				giant property	tree rules
2	make	gerund		everyone			tree rules
3	do	infinitive	everyone not said here		day		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

stitching the tapestries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stitching	stitch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tapestries	det
3	tapestries	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 stitching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stitch	gerund		the tapestries					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tapestry=Product

Option 2

spinning and dyeing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 dyeing	cc
3	dyeing	dye	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 spinning	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	dye	gerund							vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

sewing and working in the great hall all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 working	cc
3	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 sewing	conj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 hall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hall	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hall	amod
7	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 working	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sewing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	gerund					day		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	work	gerund						in the great hall	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in hall=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

sewing and working

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 working	cc
3	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 sewing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	gerund							vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	work	gerund							vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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