Test 14 · ★ · Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast…

bruh, what were the king's huntsmen doing on the ride?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: huntsmen · What happens: be, do · To what, where: ride

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 666 «Russian Tales, The Staring-Eyed Shepherd: the king's toast and the wedding feast» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 huntsmen	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 what	nsubj
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 huntsmen	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 ride	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ride	det
12	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doing	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the king's huntsmen						tree rules
2	do	gerund	the king's huntsmen not said here			the ride			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

chasing a red deer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 deer	det
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 deer	amod
4	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chasing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	gerund		a red deer					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme

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

blowing their horns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 horns	nmod:poss
3	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 blowing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	gerund		their horns					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient

Option 3

hunting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

riding fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 riding	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	gerund						fast property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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