Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 1: the ducklings…

the ducklings reckon the world is huge, lol, but it's just a bit of garden

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ducklings, world · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: bit

This is test 6 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ducklings	det
2	ducklings	duckling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reckon	nsubj
3	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 huge	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 huge	cop
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reckon	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lol	punct
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 reckon	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bit	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 bit	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 bit	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 bit	cop
14	just	just	ADV	_	16 bit	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bit	det
16	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckon	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 garden	case
18	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	the ducklings			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the world		huge property	tree rules
3	is a	present	world	a bit	of garden	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

they're young and easily fooled

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	3 young	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 young	cop
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fooled	cc
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	6 fooled	advmod
6	fooled	fool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 young	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					young property	tree rules
2	fool	participle	they not said here					easily property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they've never been out before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 been	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 been	nsubj
4	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 been	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 been	advmod
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 before	cop
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 been	compound:prt
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

true, it's small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 small	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 small	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 true	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					small property	tree rules

Option 4

they just haven't seen much yet

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	5 seen	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	5 seen	advmod
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seen	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 seen	advmod
5	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	much	much	ADV	_	5 seen	advmod
7	yet	yet	ADV	_	5 seen	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	present · perfect	they				yet		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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