Test 5 · ★ · Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George…

Ayy, what was George doing on the first new moon?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ayy, George · What happens: be, do · To what, where: George, first new moon

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 944 «Andersen tales, George and little Emily, part 155: George is confirmed, gets a hymn-book from Emily, and sends her pictures while she is ill» 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	Ayy	Ayy	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 George	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 George	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 George	cop
5	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ayy	appos
6	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 George	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	11 moon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moon	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 moon	amod
10	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 moon	amod
11	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ayy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ayy	George					tree rules
2	do	gerund	George not said here			the first new moon			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

reading the psalms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 psalms	det
3	psalms	psalm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 reading	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund		the psalms					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalm=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

opening the book for a psalm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 book	det
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 opening	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 psalm	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 psalm	det
6	psalm	psalm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 opening	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	gerund		the book				for a psalm	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme

Option 3

reading a funeral hymn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hymn	det
3	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hymn	compound
4	hymn	hymn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 reading	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	gerund		a funeral hymn					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hymn=Topic

Option 4

opening the book at random

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 book	det
3	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 opening	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 random	case
5	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 opening	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	gerund		the book		random			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent book=Theme at random=Location

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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