Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 223: the u…

Why did he bolt out of the farmyard, fam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: bolt · To what, where: farmyard

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 bolt	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bolt	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bolt	nsubj
4	bolt	bolt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 farmyard	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 farmyard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 farmyard	det
8	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bolt	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fam	punct
10	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 farmyard	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 bolt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bolt	past · do-support	he			the farmyard and fam			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out farmyard=Initial_Location

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 family was ashamed of how he looked and left him alone

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 family	nmod:poss
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ashamed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ashamed	cop
4	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	8 looked	mark
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 looked	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 looked	nsubj
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ashamed	advcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 left	cc
10	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ashamed	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 left	obj
12	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	his family		ashamed property	tree rules
2	look	past	he			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	leave	past	his family not said here	him = he	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

the others kept pecking and hitting him all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 others	det
2	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	pecking	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hitting	cc
6	hitting	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 pecking	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hitting	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hitting	obl:unmarked
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 hitting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the others				tree rules
2	peck	gerund	the others not said here				vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hit	gerund	the others not said here	him = he	day	long property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

Option 3

the cat was after him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 him	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 him	cop
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cat				after cat		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

everyone was bullying him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 bullying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bullying	aux
3	bullying	bully	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bullying	obj

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

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