Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 223: the u…

Lol the old duck said it's a turkey egg, bruh

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old duck, duck · What happens: say, be · To what, where: turkey egg · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 duck	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 duck	amod
4	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 egg	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 egg	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 egg	det
9	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 egg	compound
10	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
12	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old duck						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	duck	a turkey egg					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 · ✓ the right answer

she thought it was a turkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 turkey	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turkey	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 turkey	det
6	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	a turkey					tree rules

Option 2

she said turkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she	turkey					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent turkey=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the old duck thought it was a hen

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	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hen	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hen	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hen	det
8	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the old duck						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	duck	a hen					tree rules

Option 4

a turkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 turkey	det
2	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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