Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, t…

Did the frogs like the toads moving in?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: toads · What happens: do, move in · To what, where: frogs

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1003 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Tinder-Box: the flour trail, the three dogs and the soldier's escape» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 frogs	det
3	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Did	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 toads	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 toads	det
6	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 frogs	nmod
7	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 toads	acl
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 moving	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the frogs				like the toads	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Eventuality
2	move in	gerund	the toads not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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

Nah, they hated them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	nsubj
4	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	they	them = they					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they grumbled and called the toads ugly ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 grumbled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grumbled	nsubj
4	grumbled	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 called	cc
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grumbled	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 toads	det
8	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	obj
9	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ones	amod
10	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grumble speech: other	past	they						vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	past	they not said here		the toads				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent toad=Recipient

Option 3

Yeah, they welcomed them and said nice things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 welcomed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 welcomed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 welcomed	nsubj
4	welcomed	welcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 welcomed	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 welcomed	conj
8	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	welcome	past	they	them = they					vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	they not said here	nice things					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they were well annoyed and said the toads were ugly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 annoyed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 annoyed	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 annoyed	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 annoyed	advmod
6	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 annoyed	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 toads	det
10	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ugly	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ugly	cop
12	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	they	annoyed, well property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	they not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the toads	ugly property	tree rules

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