Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 223: the u…

That duckling was dead mean-ly ignored, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: duckling · What happens: be, ignore

This is test 5 · ★ 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 duckling	det
2	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dead	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ignored	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct
7	ly	ly	ADV	_	8 ignored	advmod
8	ignored	ignore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dead	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cap	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 cap	det
11	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dead	parataxis
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that duckling					dead property	tree rules
2	ignore	participle	that duckling not said here						vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

yes, everyone teased him and he was pushed around all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 teased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 teased	nsubj
4	teased	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 teased	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pushed	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 pushed	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pushed	aux:pass
9	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 teased	conj
10	around	around	ADV	_	9 pushed	advmod
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pushed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	past	everyone	him = he					vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	push around	past · passive		he			day	around property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

no, he was just shy and everybody liked him fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 shy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shy	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shy	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 shy	advmod
6	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 liked	cc
8	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	9 liked	nsubj
9	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shy	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 liked	obj
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 liked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					shy property	tree rules
2	like	past	everybody	him = he				fine property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yes he was bullied

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 bullied	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bullied	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bullied	aux:pass
4	bullied	bully	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bully	past · passive		he					vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 4

yes he was lonely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lonely	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lonely	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lonely	cop
4	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					lonely property	tree rules

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