Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, t…

what was the pot basically doing, fam?

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

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 997 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd: the prince's pot, the rattle and the kisses» 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	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pot	det
4	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	basically	basically	ADV	_	6 doing	advmod
6	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 pot	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
8	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the pot						tree rules
2	do	gerund	the pot not said here	fam				basically property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fam=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 · ✓ the right answer

playing the old tune

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tune	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tune	amod
4	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 playing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund		the old tune					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

sounding every bell in the pot to warn the emperor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sounding	sound	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 bell	det
3	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sounding	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 pot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pot	det
6	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sounding	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 warn	mark
8	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 sounding	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 emperor	det
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 warn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	gerund		every bell		the pot			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
2	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive			the emperor				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent emperor=Recipient

Option 3

playing the jolly old tune for the whole court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tune	det
3	jolly	jolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tune	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tune	amod
5	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 playing	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 court	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 court	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 court	amod
9	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund		the jolly old tune				for the whole court	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent tune=Theme for court=Eventuality

Option 4

spinning round and round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	round	round	ADV	_	1 spinning	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 round	cc
4	round	round	ADV	_	2 round	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	gerund						round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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