Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Apples, part 22: J…

Wait, what was the cook doing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, do · To what, where: cook

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 255 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and the Golden Apples, part 22: Jack sneaks past the sleeping monsters, steals the apples, and heads home» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 doing	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cook	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	csubj
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	parataxis
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		the cook	tree rules
3	do	gerund			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

Lying flat on the kitchen floor, totally zonked out, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 innit	advcl
2	flat	flat	ADV	_	1 Lying	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 floor	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 floor	det
5	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 floor	compound
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 zonked	punct
8	totally	totally	ADV	_	9 zonked	advmod
9	zonked	zonk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Lying	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 zonked	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lying	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund	you not said here	the kitchen floor	flat property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
2	zonk out	participle	you not said here		totally property	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	innit	imperative	you not said here			tree rules

Option 2

Stirring the pot, all busy, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stirring	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 busy	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pot	det
3	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stirring	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Stirring	punct
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 busy	det
6	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 busy	punct
8	innit	innit	INTJ	_	6 busy	discourse

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Lying on the floor, zonked out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 zonked	advcl
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 floor	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 floor	det
4	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lying	punct
6	zonked	zonk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 zonked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund				the floor			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location
2	zonk out	participle							vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Chatting to the maids, proper loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chatting	chat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 maids	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 maids	det
4	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Chatting	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 loud	punct
6	proper	properly	ADV	_	7 loud	advmod
7	loud	loud	ADV	_	1 Chatting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chat speech: other	gerund						to the maids; loud property	vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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