Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 1: the ducklings…

why'd the mum say green is good for the eyes, that's so random

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, that · What happens: say, be · To what, where: green · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 good	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mum	det
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 good	parataxis
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	obj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 good	cop
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 eyes	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eyes	det
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 good	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 random	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 random	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 random	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 random	advmod
16	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 good	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the mum	green		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent green=Topic
2	is	present			for the eyes; good property	tree rules
3	is	present	that		random property	tree rules

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

it's to help them see the colours

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	4 help	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 help	cop
3	to	to	PART	_	4 help	mark
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	obj
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 help	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 colours	det
8	colours	colour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					help property	tree rules
2	see	infinitive		the colours					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colour=Stimulus

Option 2

it just is, lol

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	3 is	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 is	advmod
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 is	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	it						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it's an old idea that it rests your eyes

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 idea	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 idea	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 idea	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 idea	amod
5	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 rests	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rests	nsubj
8	rests	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 idea	acl
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eyes	nmod:poss
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rests	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a old idea					tree rules
2	rest	present	idea	your eyes					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

they just like looking at green things

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	4 looking	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	4 looking	advmod
3	like	like	SCONJ	_	4 looking	mark
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 things	case
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 things	amod
7	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	gerund	they					at green things	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at thing=Theme

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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