Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Toad: a toad climbs out of a well an…

why'd the hens just walk off like that

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hens · What happens: walk off

This is test 6 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 walk	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 walk	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hens	det
4	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 walk	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 walk	advmod
6	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 walk	compound:prt
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk off	present	the hens					like that	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Cuz the toad had friends around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 toad	det
3	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cuz	appos
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
6	around	around	ADV	_	4 had	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have around	past	Cuz	friends				around property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cuz the toad looked like she had allies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 toad	det
3	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cuz	appos
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	ccomp
8	allies	ally	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Cuz						tree rules
2	have	past	Cuz	allies					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ally=Patient

Option 3

Cuz the toad looked like she had a whole bunch of allies behind her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 toad	det
3	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cuz	appos
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bunch	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bunch	amod
10	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 allies	case
12	allies	ally	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bunch	nmod
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bunch	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	Cuz						tree rules
2	have	past	Cuz	a whole bunch of allies					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bunch=Patient

Option 4

Cuz the toad looked like she had allies coming, so they just walked off

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cuz	Cuz	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 toad	det
3	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	ccomp
8	allies	ally	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
9	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 allies	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 walked	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 walked	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 walked	nsubj
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 walked	advmod
14	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 walked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	look	past	Cuz		tree rules
2	have	past	toad	allies	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ally=Patient
3	come	gerund	allies not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	walk off	past	allies = ally		vn resign-10.11-2 «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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