Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty…

What was that voice in the cabin doing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: voice · What happens: do

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 2016 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Andrew Coffey, part 35: Ivan's honesty and the lord's purse, then a haunted cabin and a man in a box» 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	8 doing	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 doing	aux
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 doing	mark
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cabin	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cabin	det
7	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 voice	nmod
8	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	voice in the cabin						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Yelling for the police, the cheek of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 cheek	csubj
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 police	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 police	det
4	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Yelling	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yelling	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cheek	det
7	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cheek	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	gerund						for the police	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for police=Recipient

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

Shouting, "tell me a story", the cheek

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Shouting	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Shouting	parataxis
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Shouting	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cheek	det
11	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shouting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	gerund		the cheek					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		a story	me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient story=Topic

Option 3

Singing, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mate	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Singing	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund						mate vocative	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Laughing and singing, what a racket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 what	advcl
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 singing	cc
3	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Laughing	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Laughing	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 racket	det
7	racket	racket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	gerund							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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