Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 223: the u…

Who yelled "I wish the cat would get you" at him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, cat · What happens: yell, wish, get · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 yelled	nsubj
2	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 wish	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 wish	nsubj
5	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 yelled	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wish	ccomp
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 get	obj
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 yelled	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	wish in a quote	present	I			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	get in a quote	would	the cat	you	at him = he	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Theme at he=Asset

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

his mother

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 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

his brothers and sisters

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 brothers	nmod:poss
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sisters	cc
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 brothers	conj

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

Option 3

the other ducks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ducks	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ducks	amod
3	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

the farm hens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hens	det
2	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hens	compound
3	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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