Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Coat o' Clay: a fool hunts for a…

Ngl, what did the fool keep doing when he was puzzled?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: do, keep, puzzle · To what, where: fool, Ngl

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 247 «English Fairy Tales, The Coat o' Clay: a fool hunts for a coat o' clay, gets muddy and drunk, and learns he is still a fool» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 keep	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ngl	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fool	det
6	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 puzzled	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 puzzled	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 puzzled	aux:pass
12	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 doing	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl	the fool	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Eventuality
2	keep	present	Ngl		tree rules
3	do	gerund	Ngl not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	puzzle	past · passive		Ngl	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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

staring at the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	gerund						at the sky	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=Theme

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

scratching his head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	scratching	scratch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 scratching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	gerund		his head					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

Option 3

rubbing his chin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 chin	nmod:poss
3	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 rubbing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub	gerund		his chin					vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent chin=Theme

Option 4

sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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