Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the d…

Be real, how did the peasant break up the ice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, peasant · What happens: be, break up · To what, where: ice

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 break	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 break	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 break	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 peasant	det
7	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 break	nsubj
8	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 real	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 break	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ice	det
11	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 break	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					real property	tree rules
2	break up	past · do-support	the peasant	the ice					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ice=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

Using a long wooden pole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pole	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pole	amod
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pole	amod
5	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Using	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	gerund		a long wooden pole					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pole=Patient

Option 2

With a heavy iron bar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	5 bar	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bar	det
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bar	amod
4	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bar	compound
5	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

With a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 stick	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stick	det
3	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

With his wooden shoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	4 shoe	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shoe	nmod:poss
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shoe	amod
4	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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