Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 223: the u…

Bro, what was going bang bang bang out there?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: go, bang out · To what, where: bang bang

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1012 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 223: the ugly duckling hatches, is scorned, and flees to a moor» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bang	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 going	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Bro	conj
6	bang	bang	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bang	amod
7	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	obj
8	bang	bang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	out	out	ADV	_	8 bang	advmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 bang	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 bang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	Bro	bang bang					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bang=Theme
2	bang out	present	Bro			there		out property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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

hunters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the hunters shooting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hunters	det
2	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shooting	nsubj
3	shooting	shoot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	gerund	the hunters						vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

men with guns outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 guns	case
3	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 men	nmod
4	outside	outside	ADV	_	1 men	advmod

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

Option 4

shooting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shooting	shoot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	gerund							vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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