Test 6 · ★ · A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 36: Jason…

What's the peacock doing, like, showing off?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: peacock · What happens: be, do, show off

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 2077 «A Wonder-Book, Jason and the Golden Fleece, part 36: Jason carries an old woman across a river and loses a sandal» 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	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peacock	det
4	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 peacock	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	5 doing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 showing	punct
9	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 doing	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 showing	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	is a	present	the peacock	tree rules
2	do	gerund	the peacock not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	show off	gerund	the peacock not said here	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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

Showing off to the crowd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Showing	compound:prt
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 crowd	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crowd	det
5	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Showing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show off	gerund			the crowd				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to crowd=Recipient

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

Spreading its tail for Jason

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Spreading	spread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tail	nmod:poss
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Spreading	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 Jason	case
5	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Spreading	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spread	gerund		its tail				for Jason	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Theme

Option 3

It's just sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sleeping	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sleeping	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 sleeping	advmod
4	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present · progressive	It						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Flapping its wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wings	nmod:poss
3	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Flapping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flap	gerund		its wings					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient

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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