Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 223: the u…
Like, what did the turkey cock do when he saw him?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, see · To what, where: turkey cock, him
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | Like | like | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 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 | 8 do | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cock | det |
| 6 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cock | compound |
| 7 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 saw | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the turkey cock | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | see | past | he | him = he | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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
chased him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 chased | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | past | him = he | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 2
shouted and ran off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ran | advcl |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ran | cc |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | participle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | run off | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
puffed up and chased him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puffed | puff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 puffed | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 chased | cc |
| 4 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 puffed | conj |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chased | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puff up | participle | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 2 | chase | past | him = he | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
flapped and hissed loudly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hissed | cc |
| 3 | hissed | hiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 flapped | conj |
| 4 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 3 hissed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flap | past | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | hiss | past | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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