Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 1: the ducklings…

bruh, the babies kept going peep peep, what even

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: babies · What happens: keep, go · To what, where: peep peep

This is test 3 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruh	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 babies	det
4	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 peep	compound
8	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 kept	obl
11	even	even	ADV	_	10 what	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the babies						tree rules
2	go	gerund	the babies not said here	peep peep					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location peep=Theme

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

it's how they say hello at first and it means they are all safe and well

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	cop
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	hello	hello	INTJ	_	5 say	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 say	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 means	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 means	nsubj
11	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	conj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 safe	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 safe	cop
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 safe	advmod
15	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 means	ccomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 well	cc
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 safe	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	it	say property	tree rules
2	mean	present	it		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	they	all, safe property	tree rules

Option 2

that's how they say hello at first, before they learn to quack like their mum

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 how	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 how	cop
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	hello	hello	INTJ	_	5 say	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 say	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 learn	punct
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 learn	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 learn	nsubj
12	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 quack	mark
14	quack	quack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 learn	xcomp
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 mum	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mum	nmod:poss
17	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 quack	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	that	how property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	they		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic
3	learn	present	they		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	quack	to-infinitive	they not said here	like their mum	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

that's how they say hello at first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 how	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 how	cop
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	hello	hello	INTJ	_	5 say	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 first	case
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					how property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic

Option 4

they're just being noisy babies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 babies	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 babies	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	6 babies	advmod
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 babies	cop
5	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 babies	amod
6	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	they	noisy babies					tree rules

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