Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

Bruh, what was the stork fam doing on the minaret?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stork fam · What happens: be, do · To what, where: stork fam, minaret

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 889 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 100: the storks fly south, the Viking feasts and sails away again» 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	7 fam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 fam	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fam	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fam	det
6	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fam	compound
7	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 fam	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 minaret	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 minaret	det
11	minaret	minaret	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 fam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the stork fam					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the stork fam not said here			the minaret			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

Chilling on the roof and preening their feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 roof	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roof	det
4	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chilling	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 preening	cc
6	preening	preen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Chilling	conj
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 feathers	nmod:poss
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 preening	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	gerund				the roof			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	preen	gerund		their feathers					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Chilling and preening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 preening	cc
3	preening	preen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Chilling	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	gerund							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	preen	gerund							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nesting and hunting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nesting	nesting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 hunting	cc
3	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nesting	conj

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

Option 4

Sunbathing and singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sunbathing	sunbathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 singing	cc
3	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sunbathing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sunbathe	gerund							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sing speech: express	gerund							vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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