Test 13 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous…

Sus, what's King O'Toole thinking about at the lake?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: King · What happens: think · To what, where: Sus

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1998 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree: the jealous queen's plots end in her own death» 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thinking	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 thinking	obj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 thinking	aux
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thinking	nsubj
6	O'Toole	O'Toole	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 King	flat
7	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sus	conj
8	about	about	ADP	_	11 lake	case
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 lake	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lake	det
11	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thinking	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present · progressive	King	Sus				about the lake	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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

to swim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 swim	mark
2	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	to-infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

drowning himself in the lake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	drowning	drown	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 drowning	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 lake	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lake	det
5	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drowning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	gerund		himself = he		the lake			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient

Option 3

giving up his crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 giving	compound:prt
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 crown	nmod:poss
4	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 giving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	gerund		his crown					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Source
2	crown		his = he						nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

walking into the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund						into the forest result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into forest=Result

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