Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 223: the u…

That dog was scary af, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: be · To what, where: scary af

This is test 13 · ★ 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 af	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 af	cop
4	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 af	amod
5	af	af	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 af	punct
7	right	right	INTJ	_	5 af	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 af	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that dog	scary af					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 · ← Mova's choice

nose sniffing the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	sniffing	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 nose	acl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ground	det
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sniffing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff	gerund	nose not said here	the ground					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

jaws open and eyes glaring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 open	nsubj
2	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 eyes	cc
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 open	conj
5	glaring	glaring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 open	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	present	jaws					glaring property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

his fur bristling and his paws stamping on the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 fur	nmod:poss
2	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	bristling	bristle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 fur	acl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 paws	cc
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 paws	nmod:poss
6	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fur	conj
7	stamping	stamp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 fur	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 bank	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bank	det
10	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stamping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bristle	gerund	his fur and his paws not said here						vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location
2	stamp	gerund	his fur and his paws not said here			the bank			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bank=Destination

Option 4

showing all his teeth and barking at the ducks loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 teeth	det:predet
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 teeth	nmod:poss
4	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 showing	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 barking	cc
6	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 showing	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 ducks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ducks	det
9	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 barking	obl
10	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	6 barking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	gerund		his teeth					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient
2	bark	gerund						at the ducks; loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at duck=Stimulus

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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