Test 11 · ★ · Greek Myths, Nymphs and Winds, part 34: sea, river, tree a…

Wot's the Naiades' gig then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wot · What happens: be · To what, where: gig

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 528 «Greek Myths, Nymphs and Winds, part 34: sea, river, tree and mountain nymphs, Echo and Narcissus, and the winds of Aeolus» 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	Wot	Wot	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gig	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 gig	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Naiades	det
4	Naiades	Naiade	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 gig	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 Naiades	case
6	gig	gig	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 gig	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 gig	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Wot	the Naiades's gig			then		tree rules

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

making rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 making	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund		rain					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rain=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

looking after springs and lakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 springs	case
3	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 looking	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lakes	cc
5	lakes	lake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 springs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund					spring		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

guarding trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	guarding	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 trees	amod
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	gerund							vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 4

guarding the sea shore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	guarding	guard	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shore	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shore	compound
4	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 guarding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	gerund		the sea shore					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shore=Beneficiary

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