Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 144:…

wait, the stag was just chillin on a stick over the fire?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, stag · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: chillin, stick

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 933 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Garden of Paradise, part 144: the lost prince shelters in the Winds' cave and hears the North and West Winds tell their adventures» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 chillin	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stag	det
4	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chillin	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chillin	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 chillin	advmod
7	chillin	chillin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 stick	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stick	det
10	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chillin	nmod
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 fire	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fire	det
13	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stick	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the stag	chillin		a stick over the fire			tree rules

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

yep, turning slowly on a spit and smelling amazing lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 turning	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 turning	punct
3	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 turning	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 spit	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spit	det
7	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turning	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 smelling	cc
9	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 turning	conj
10	amazing	amazing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 smelling	xcomp
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 turning	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund				a spit		slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on spit=Trajectory
2	smell	gerund						amazing property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

yep, cooking in a pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 cooking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	cooking	cook	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pot	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pot	det
6	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cooking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	gerund						in a pot	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in pot=Instrument

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yep, turning on a spit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 turning	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 spit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spit	det
6	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund				a spit			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on spit=Trajectory

Option 4

yep, turning on a spit over the fire like dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 turning	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 spit	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spit	det
6	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turning	obl
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 fire	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fire	det
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turning	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 dinner	case
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fire	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund				a spit		over the fire like dinner	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on spit=Source over fire=Trajectory

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