Test 9 · ★ · Estonian Folk Tales, Tiidu, part 18: Tiidu sails to Kungla…

Yo, what was Tiidu doing in the gardens?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tiidu · What happens: do · To what, where: gardens

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 678 «Estonian Folk Tales, Tiidu, part 18: Tiidu sails to Kungla and becomes a scullion» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 doing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 doing	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	aux
5	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 doing	nsubj
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 gardens	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gardens	det
9	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 doing	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	Tiidu			the gardens			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 · ← Mova's choice

Just relaxing and watching folks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 relaxing	advmod
2	relaxing	relaxing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 watching	cc
4	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 relaxing	conj
5	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 watching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund		folks					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Just chilling and people watching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 chilling	advmod
2	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 watching	cc
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 watching	nsubj
5	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 chilling	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	watch	gerund	people						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Walking around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	around	around	ADV	_	1 Walking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk around	gerund						around property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Just hanging out and eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 hanging	advmod
2	hanging	hang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 hanging	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 eating	cc
5	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hanging	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang out	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	gerund							vn eat-39.1-1 «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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