Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsm…

Ngl, what did Peter say he was doing?

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

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 704 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsman: he loses the king's golden ox, dodges the scythes, and wins a bride» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	aux
5	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 doing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 doing	aux
9	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 say	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Peter					Ngl vocative	tree rules
2	do	past · progressive	Peter						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 · ✓ the right answer

wandering to find work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 find	mark
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wandering	xcomp
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	gerund							vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	find	to-infinitive		work					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Topic

Option 2

seeking a job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 job	det
3	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 seeking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	gerund		a job					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Theme

Option 3

travelling to find a master

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 find	mark
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 travelling	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 master	det
5	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	to-infinitive		a master					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Topic

Option 4

looking for work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 work	case
3	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund						for work	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for work=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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