Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad climbs out of a well an…

honestly was the toad a good hero or just lucky

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: toad

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1004 «Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad climbs out of a well and goes hunting for a better world» 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	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	4 toad	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 toad	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 toad	det
4	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hero	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hero	amod
7	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 toad	appos
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 lucky	cc
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 lucky	advmod
10	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hero	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the toad				honestly property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Kinda both, she saved the hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 saved	advmod
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Kinda	fixed
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kinda	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saved	nsubj
5	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hen	det
7	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	she	the hen				kinda property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Theme

Option 2

Kinda both, she helped the caterpillar out a bit, though it was mostly luck

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 helped	advmod
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Kinda	fixed
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kinda	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 helped	nsubj
5	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 caterpillar	det
7	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 helped	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	5 helped	compound:prt
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bit	det
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 helped	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 luck	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 luck	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 luck	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 luck	cop
15	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	16 luck	advmod
16	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 helped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help out	past	she		the caterpillar			a bit obl:unmarked; kinda property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Beneficiary
2	is a	past	caterpillar	luck				mostly property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Kinda both, she helped the caterpillar out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 helped	advmod
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Kinda	fixed
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 helped	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 helped	nsubj
5	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 caterpillar	det
7	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 helped	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	5 helped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help out	past	she		the caterpillar			kinda property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Beneficiary

Option 4

Kinda both, she helped the caterpillar out and got lucky too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 helped	advmod
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Kinda	fixed
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kinda	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 helped	nsubj
5	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 caterpillar	det
7	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 helped	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	5 helped	compound:prt
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 got	cc
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 helped	conj
11	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 got	obj
12	too	too	ADV	_	10 got	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help out	past	she		the caterpillar			kinda property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Beneficiary
2	get	past	she not said here	lucky					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lucky=Stimulus

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