Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 223: the u…

Fr, what were the wild geese actually doing with their big talk?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wild geese, geese · What happens: do, talk · To what, where: Fr

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 doing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 doing	obj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 doing	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 geese	det
6	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 geese	amod
7	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 doing	nsubj
8	actually	actually	ADV	_	9 doing	advmod
9	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Fr	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 talk	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 talk	nmod:poss
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 talk	amod
13	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doing	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	the wild geese	Fr				with geese's big talk; actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	talk		geese = goose						nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=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 · ✓ the right answer

trying to get him a wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 get	mark
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 trying	xcomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wife	det
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive		a wife	him = he				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary wife=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

to take him to the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 take	mark
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 take	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	to-infinitive		him = he		the sea			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to sea=Destination

Option 3

to take him away to live with the flock and find him a mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 take	mark
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 take	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 take	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 live	mark
6	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 take	advcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 flock	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flock	det
9	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 live	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 find	cc
11	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 take	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 find	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mate	det
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take away	to-infinitive	him = he	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	live	to-infinitive		with the flock	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with flock=Location
3	find	infinitive	him = he		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme mate=Attribute

Option 4

to find him a good wife among the wild geese flock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 find	mark
2	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 find	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wife	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wife	amod
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 find	obj
7	among	among	ADP	_	11 flock	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 geese	det
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 geese	amod
10	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 flock	nsubj
11	flock	flock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 find	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	to-infinitive		him = he					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme wife=Attribute
2	flock	present	the wild geese						vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

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