Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 1: the ducklings…

did the mum duck get a visitor at all? she was like, gutted

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: get, gut · To what, where: mum duck, all

This is test 10 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 duck	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 duck	det
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 duck	compound
4	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 visitor	det
7	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 get	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 like	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 like	cop
13	like	like	INTJ	_	5 get	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gutted	punct
15	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 get	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present		the mum duck		all			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent visitor=Theme at all=Asset
2	gut	participle							vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

she hardly ever had any visitors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 visitors	det
6	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	any visitors			ever	hardly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Patient

Option 2

one or two came, but rarely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 came	nsubj
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 two	cc
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 one	conj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 but	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 came	conj
7	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	4 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	one					rarely property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

she hardly ever had visitors, though the stork did drop in once on a long walk

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 had	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drop	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 drop	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stork	det
9	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drop	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 drop	aux
11	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	conj
12	in	in	ADV	_	11 drop	advmod
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 drop	advmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	17 walk	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 walk	det
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 walk	amod
17	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	participle	she	visitors			ever	hardly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Patient
2	drop in	past · do-support	the stork			a long walk		once property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on walk=Trajectory

Option 4

a fox came by once, nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 came	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nearby	punct
7	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	3 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a fox					nearby property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by once=Location

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