Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 2…

lol, what was the kettle doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 990 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Soup from a Sausage Skewer, part 201: the elves' glittering maypole and feast, the violet staff and noisy kitchen, then the second mouse sets out to become a poet» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 doing	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doing	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kettle	det
6	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 was	nsubj
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive							vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

it was singing a song to the bells, lowkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 singing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 singing	aux
3	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 song	det
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 singing	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 bells	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bells	det
8	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 singing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lowkey	punct
10	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bells	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	it	a song	the bells and lowkey				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent song=Topic to bell=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

tryna figure out if it was boiling or stopping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tryna	tryna	X	Foreign=Yes	2 figure	dep
2	figure	figure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 figure	compound:prt
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 boiling	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 boiling	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boiling	aux
7	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 figure	advcl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 stopping	cc
9	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 boiling	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	figure out	imperative	you not said here	vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	boil a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	it	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	stop	gerund		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

tryna figure out if it was boiling or stopping while the elves danced all around it

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tryna	tryna	X	Foreign=Yes	2 figure	dep
2	figure	figure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 figure	compound:prt
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 boiling	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 boiling	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boiling	aux
7	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 figure	advcl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 stopping	cc
9	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 boiling	conj
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 danced	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 elves	det
12	elves	elf	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 danced	nsubj
13	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stopping	ccomp
14	all	all	ADV	_	13 danced	advmod
15	around	around	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 danced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	figure out	imperative	you not said here			vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	boil a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	it			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	stop	gerund				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	dance	past	the elves	it	all property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around it=Location

Option 4

tryna figure out if it was boiling or stopping, then it started whistling super loud

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tryna	tryna	X	Foreign=Yes	2 figure	dep
2	figure	figure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 figure	compound:prt
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 boiling	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 boiling	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boiling	aux
7	boiling	boil	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 figure	advcl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 stopping	cc
9	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 boiling	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 started	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 started	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 started	nsubj
13	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 figure	conj
14	whistling	whistle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 started	xcomp
15	super	super	ADV	_	16 loud	advmod
16	loud	loud	ADV	_	14 whistling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	figure out	imperative	you not said here			vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	boil a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	it			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	stop	gerund				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	start	past	it	then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	whistle	gerund			loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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