Test 7 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast…

Dang, what were the four girls doing while the dudes ate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dang, four girls, dudes · What happens: be, do, eat · To what, where: four girls

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 2065 «A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast on golden thrones, then turn into hogs» 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	Dang	Dang	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 girls	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 girls	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 girls	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 girls	det
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 girls	nummod
7	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dang	appos
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 girls	acl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 ate	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dudes	det
11	dudes	dude	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ate	nsubj
12	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 doing	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	Dang	the four girls	tree rules
2	do	gerund	the four girls not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	eat	past	the dudes		vn eat-39.1-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Hyping them up to eat more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hyping	hype	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hyping	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hyping	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hyping	advcl
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hype up	gerund		them = they					tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Dancing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dancing	dancing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Waving fans to cool them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	fans	fan	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Waving	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 cool	mark
4	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Waving	advcl
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cool	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	gerund		fans					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fan=Patient
2	cool	to-infinitive		fans = fan					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

Cheering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheering	cheer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheer	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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