Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the d…
Bro, did the dog actually bite the duckling or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, bite · To what, where: dog, duckling
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1013 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the duckling survives the hunters, a cottage, and a freezing winter» 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bro | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 bite | advmod |
| 7 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 duckling | det |
| 9 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bite | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 nah | cc |
| 11 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 bite | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Bro | the dog | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bite | present | Bro not said here | the duckling | actually property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duckling=Patient |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, it splashed off without touching him
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 splashed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 splashed | nsubj |
| 4 | splashed | splash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 splashed | compound:prt |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 touching | mark |
| 7 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 splashed | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 touching | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | splash off | past | it | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | touch | gerund | him = he | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, it chomped his tail and ran
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 chomped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 chomped | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chomped | nsubj |
| 4 | chomped | chomp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tail | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chomped | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ran | cc |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chomped | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chomp | past | it | his tail | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 2 | run | past | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, it grabbed him by the neck
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 grabbed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grabbed | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grabbed | nsubj |
| 4 | grabbed | grab | 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 grabbed | obj |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 neck | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 neck | det |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grabbed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | past | it | him = he | by the neck | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 4
Nah, it sniffed him, got bored, and went off to chase some other ducks in the rushes
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 sniffed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sniffed | nsubj |
| 4 | sniffed | sniff | 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 sniffed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sniffed | conj |
| 8 | bored | bored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 got | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sniffed | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 went | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 chase | mark |
| 14 | chase | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | xcomp |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 ducks | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ducks | amod |
| 17 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 chase | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 rushes | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rushes | det |
| 20 | rushes | rush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 chase | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sniff | past | it | him = he | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | bored property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | go off | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | chase | to-infinitive | some other ducks | the rushes | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent duck=Theme in rush=Trajectory |
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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