Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 1: the ducklings…

yo, did u read the duckling bit? the mum duck was SO bored sitting on them eggs

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, mum duck · What happens: read, be, sit · To what, where: duckling bit, eggs

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1011 «Andersen's Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 1: the ducklings hatch under the burdock leaves» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 read	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 read	aux
4	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 read	nsubj
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bit	det
7	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bit	compound
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 duck	det
11	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 duck	compound
12	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bored	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bored	cop
14	SO	so	ADV	_	15 bored	advmod
15	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 read	parataxis
16	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 bored	advcl
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sitting	obl
19	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sitting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	read	past · do-support	u	the duckling bit		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Topic
2	is	past	the mum duck		bored property	tree rules
3	sit	gerund	the mum duck not said here	eggs	on them = they	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme on they=Location

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

no, she loved sitting on them all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 loved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 loved	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sitting	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	she						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	sit not said to happen	gerund	she not said here				day	on them = they	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on they=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

right, it took forever for them to crack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	right	right	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 right	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 crack	mark
9	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	it					for them = they; forever property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary
2	crack	to-infinitive							vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

right, it took forever for them to crack, and she was really fed up with waiting around

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	right	right	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 right	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 took	advmod
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 crack	mark
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 crack	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 crack	mark
9	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 took	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fed	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fed	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fed	aux:pass
14	really	really	ADV	_	15 fed	advmod
15	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 took	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 fed	compound:prt
17	with	with	SCONJ	_	18 waiting	mark
18	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 fed	advcl
19	around	around	ADV	_	18 waiting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	it		forever property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	crack	to-infinitive	them = they			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	feed up	past · passive		she		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
4	wait around	gerund			around property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yeah, she was sooo fed up waiting, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 fed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fed	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fed	aux:pass
5	sooo	so	ADV	_	6 fed	advmod
6	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 fed	compound:prt
8	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 waiting	punct
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 fed	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed up	past · passive		she					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	wait	gerund							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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