Test 6 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hoby…

What was he doing when his mam died, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he, mam · What happens: do, die

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 253 «English Fairy Tales, A Pottle o' Brains, part 20: the Hobyahs are beaten, the fool's mother dies, and a lass offers to help him» 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	4 doing	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 doing	nsubj
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 died	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mam	nmod:poss
7	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 died	nsubj
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	8 died	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	he						tree rules
2	die	past	his mam						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

sobbing and greeting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sobbing	sob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 greeting	cc
3	greeting	greeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sobbing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sob	gerund							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

down at the market buying a pig for his mam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	down	down	ADV	_	4 market	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 market	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 market	det
4	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	buying	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 market	acl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pig	det
7	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buying	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 mam	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mam	nmod:poss
10	mam	mam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	gerund	the market not said here	a pig				for pig's mam	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pig=Theme for mam=Beneficiary

Option 3

sitting quietly and reading his book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	1 sitting	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 reading	cc
4	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 sitting	conj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 book	nmod:poss
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reading	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund						quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	read	gerund		his book					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic

Option 4

working in field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 field	case
3	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 working	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	gerund						in field	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in field=Theme

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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