Test 8 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Shepherd Paul, part 51: Niels…

Sick, what was Tree Comber doing with the trees?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Tree Comber · What happens: sick, be, do · To what, where: Tree Comber

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 711 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Shepherd Paul, part 51: Niels is caught and wed, then Paul gathers three strong friends and finds a dragon's captive» 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	Sick	sick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Comber	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 Comber	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Comber	cop
5	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Comber	compound
6	Comber	comber	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sick	obl
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Comber	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 trees	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 trees	det
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 doing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sick	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	is a	past		Tree Comber		tree rules
3	do	gerund	Tree Comber not said here		with the trees	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

Hugging them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hugging	hug	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hugging	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hug	gerund		them = they					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Chopping them into logs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chopping	chop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chopping	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	4 logs	case
4	logs	log	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Chopping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	gerund		them = they				into logs result	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent they=Patient into log=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Combing them like flax

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Combing	comb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Combing	obj
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 flax	case
4	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Combing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	comb	gerund		them = they				like flax	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

Cutting them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Cutting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	gerund		them = they					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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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