Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the d…

Yo, what did the kids do when the duckling showed up in the house?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kids, duckling · What happens: do, show up · To what, where: house

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kids	det
6	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 showed	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 duckling	det
10	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 showed	nsubj
11	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 showed	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 showed	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the kids		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	show up	past	the duckling	the house	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=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 · ✓ the right answer

Laughed and chased him around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 chased	cc
3	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Laughed	conj
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chased	obj
5	around	around	ADV	_	3 chased	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past							vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	chase around	past		him = he				around property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

They cried

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	They						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They fed him some bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	nsubj
2	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	obj
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 bread	det
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	past	They	some bread	him = he				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bread=Theme

Option 4

They threw stones at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threw	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	They	stones				at him = he	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at he=Destination

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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