Test 12 · ★ · Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells ho…

So when the spectre showed up, what was the dog doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: spectre · What happens: show up, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 686 «Household Tales, The Spring-Root, part 26: Blaize tells how to win the root, and poor Peter makes a plan» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 showed	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 showed	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spectre	det
4	spectre	spectre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 showed	nsubj
5	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 showed	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 what	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 doing	obj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 doing	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dog	det
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	nsubj
12	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 showed	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 showed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show up	past	the spectre						tree rules
2	do	past · progressive							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 · ✓ the right answer

Barking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Sat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sat	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Howling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ran	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

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

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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