Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 223: the u…

So who was the duck with the red flag tied to her leg?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be, tie · To what, where: duck, red flag

This is test 14 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 duck	advmod
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 duck	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 duck	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 duck	det
5	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 flag	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flag	det
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flag	amod
9	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 duck	nmod
10	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 flag	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 leg	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 leg	nmod:poss
13	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tied	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 duck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the duck				with the red flag	tree rules
2	tie	participle		the red flag not said here				to duck's leg	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to leg=Co-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

the duck with a ribbon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 duck	det
2	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 ribbon	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ribbon	det
5	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 duck	nmod

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

Option 2

the hen who lived near the farm and wore a red rag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hen	det
2	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wore	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hen	acl:relcl
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 farm	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farm	det
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 lived	cc
9	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rag	det
11	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rag	amod
12	rag	rag	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the hen			the farm			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near farm=Location
2	wear	past	the hen	a red rag					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent rag=Source

Option 3

the old duck with the red flag tied to her leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duck	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 duck	amod
3	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 flag	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 flag	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flag	amod
7	flag	flag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 duck	nmod
8	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 flag	acl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 leg	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 leg	nmod:poss
11	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		the red flag not said here				to duck's leg	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to leg=Co-Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the old duck with the rag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duck	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 duck	amod
3	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 rag	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rag	det
6	rag	rag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 duck	nmod

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

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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