Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 223: the u…

Ngl, what did the duckling do when that huge dog came close?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl, huge dog · What happens: do, come · To what, where: duckling

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ngl	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 duckling	det
6	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 came	mark
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 dog	det
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dog	amod
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
13	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 came	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl	the duckling		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duckling=Eventuality
2	do	present	Ngl			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	that huge dog		close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

hid his head under his wing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hid	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 wing	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wing	nmod:poss
6	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past		his head		his wing			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Patient under wing=Location

Option 2

tucked his head under his wing and lay still in the rushes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tucked	tuck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tucked	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 wing	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wing	nmod:poss
6	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tucked	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lay	cc
8	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 tucked	conj
9	still	still	ADV	_	8 lay	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 rushes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rushes	det
12	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tuck	past		his head		his wing			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme under wing=Trajectory
2	lay	infinitive				the rushes	still		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in rush=Destination

Option 3

froze with his head hidden under his wing while the dog sniffed about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 head	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 froze	obl
5	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 head	acl
6	under	under	ADP	_	8 wing	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wing	nmod:poss
8	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hidden	obl
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 sniffed	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dog	det
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sniffed	nsubj
12	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 froze	advcl
13	about	about	ADV	_	12 sniffed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	freeze	past				with his head	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with head=Theme
2	hide	participle		his head not said here	his wing		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under wing=Location
3	sniff	past	the dog			about property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

flew up into the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 flew	compound:prt
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 trees	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trees	det
5	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly up	past						into the trees result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tree=Result

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