Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad climbs out of a well an…

did the hen actually eat the caterpillar tho

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, eat · To what, where: hen, caterpillar

This is test 5 · ★ 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hen	det
3	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 caterpillar	det
7	caterpillar	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
8	tho	tho	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the hen					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Eventuality
2	eat	present		the caterpillar				actually property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caterpillar=Patient

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, she only pecked it a bit, then flew off and bailed on it totally

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 pecked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pecked	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 pecked	advmod
5	pecked	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pecked	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pecked	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flew	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 flew	advmod
11	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pecked	parataxis
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 flew	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bailed	cc
14	bailed	bail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 flew	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bailed	obl
17	totally	totally	ADV	_	14 bailed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peck	past	she	it			a bit obl:unmarked	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	fly off	past				then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bail	participle			bit		totally property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, she only pecked it at first, then got bored and bailed on it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 pecked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pecked	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 pecked	advmod
5	pecked	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pecked	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 pecked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 got	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 got	advmod
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pecked	conj
12	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 got	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bailed	cc
14	bailed	bail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 bored	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peck	past	she	it				vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient at first=Location
2	get	past	she not said here		it	then	bored property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on it=Source
3	bail	participle	she not said here					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she just pecked and left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 pecked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pecked	nsubj:pass
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 pecked	advmod
5	pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 left	cc
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pecked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peck	participle · passive		she					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	leave	participle							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she only pecked it, then bailed on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 pecked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pecked	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 pecked	advmod
5	pecked	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pecked	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bailed	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 bailed	advmod
9	bailed	bail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 pecked	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bailed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peck	past	she	it					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	bail	participle	she not said here			it	then		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

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