Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales pg23661, The Island of the Nine Whirlpools, pa…

what was the raven doing lol?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: raven · What happens: be, do

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 647 «Fairy Tales pg23661, The Island of the Nine Whirlpools, part 1: a Queen buys a baby from a witch, and the King is furious» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 raven	det
4	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 raven	acl
6	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 doing	discourse
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the raven						tree rules
2	do	gerund	the raven not said here						vn act-114-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

pecking at the cake crumbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pecking	peck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 crumbs	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crumbs	det
4	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crumbs	compound
5	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 pecking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peck	gerund						at the cake crumbs	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at crumb=Patient

Option 2

flying round the courtyard and trying to peck the goldfish out of the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 trying	csubj
2	round	round	ADP	_	4 courtyard	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 courtyard	det
4	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 flying	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 trying	cc
6	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 peck	mark
8	peck	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 trying	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 goldfish	det
10	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 peck	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	14 water	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 peck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fly	gerund			the courtyard	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round courtyard=Trajectory
2	try	gerund	flying			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	peck not said to happen	to-infinitive	flying not said here	the goldfish	the water	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent goldfish=Patient out water=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

trying to peck the goldfish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 peck	mark
3	peck	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 trying	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 goldfish	det
5	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 peck	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	peck not said to happen	to-infinitive		the goldfish					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goldfish=Patient

Option 4

trying to peck the goldfish out of the fountain while the princess laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 laughed	csubj
2	to	to	PART	_	3 peck	mark
3	peck	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 trying	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 goldfish	det
5	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 peck	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 fountain	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 fountain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fountain	det
9	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 peck	obl
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 laughed	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 laughed	nsubj
13	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	try	gerund				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	peck not said to happen	to-infinitive		the goldfish	the fountain	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent goldfish=Patient out fountain=Location
3	laugh	past	the princess			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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