Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid: the mermaid re…

what was the bishop doing at the wedding, dude?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bishop · What happens: be, do · To what, where: bishop, wedding

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 881 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Little Mermaid: the mermaid refuses the knife and rises among the daughters of the air» 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 bishop	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bishop	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bishop	det
4	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 bishop	acl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 wedding	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wedding	det
8	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 doing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dude	punct
10	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bishop	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bishop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the bishop and dude					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the bishop and dude not said here			the wedding			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

Praying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Praying	pray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	gerund							vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

Blessing the couple in front of all the guests on the deck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blessing	bless	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 couple	det
3	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blessing	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blessing	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 guests	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 guests	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 guests	det
9	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 front	nmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 deck	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 deck	det
12	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blessing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bless	gerund		the couple		front of all guests		on the deck	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=Theme

Option 3

Watching the bride

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bride	det
3	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Watching	obj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Blessing the couple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blessing	bless	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 couple	det
3	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blessing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bless	gerund		the couple					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=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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