Test 12 · ★ · Lang's fairy book, Paperarello, part 21: a magic curl give…

What was he doing in the road while the lads rode off?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: he, lads · What happens: do, ride off · To what, where: road

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 681 «Lang's fairy book, Paperarello, part 21: a magic curl gives the prince a castle, bread and a battle win» 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	4 doing	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 doing	nsubj
4	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 doing	obl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 rode	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lads	det
10	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rode	nsubj
11	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 doing	advcl
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 rode	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	he			the road			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	ride off	past	the lads						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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

Sleeping in the ditch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 ditch	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ditch	det
4	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sleeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund				the ditch			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in ditch=Location

Option 2

Sitting and playing with mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 playing	cc
3	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sitting	conj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 mud	case
5	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	play	gerund						with mud	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with mud=Theme

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

Making little clay soldiers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 soldiers	amod
3	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soldiers	compound
4	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Making	obj

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

Option 4

Digging holes in the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Digging	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 road	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 road	det
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Digging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	gerund		holes		the road			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Theme in road=Location

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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