Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 1: the ducklings…

how'd the babies get out of the eggs, did the shells just pop

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: babies, shells · What happens: get out, pop · To what, where: eggs

This is test 9 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 babies	det
4	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 pop	advcl
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 eggs	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 eggs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eggs	det
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pop	aux
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 shells	det
13	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pop	nsubj
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 pop	advmod
15	pop	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get out	present	the babies	the eggs					tree rules
2	pop	past · do-support	the shells						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 just popped

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 popped	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 popped	advmod
3	popped	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pop	past	they						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

the mum helped them out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mum	det
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 helped	nsubj
3	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 helped	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	3 helped	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help out	past	the mum	them = they					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

one by one the shells cracked open

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 shells	nummod
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 one	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 one	nmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shells	det
5	shells	shell	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cracked	nsubj
6	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cracked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack	past	the one shells					open property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

they hatched slowly

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	2 hatched	nsubj
2	hatched	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 hatched	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hatch	past	they					slowly property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

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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