Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the d…

Bro, where did the duckling finally land?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: duckling

This is test 14 · ★ 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	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 duckling	det
6	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	finally	finally	ADV	_	8 land	advmod
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the duckling				Bro vocative; land obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duckling=Eventuality

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

In a large park where the swans were gliding over the water in the early morning sunshine

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 park	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 park	det
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 park	amod
4	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 gliding	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 swans	det
7	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gliding	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gliding	aux
9	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 park	acl
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 water	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 water	det
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gliding	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	17 sunshine	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sunshine	det
15	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sunshine	amod
16	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sunshine	compound
17	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gliding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glide	past · progressive	the swans			the water		in the early morning sunshine	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme over water=Source in sunshine=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

In a garden with some green trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 garden	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 garden	det
3	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 trees	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 trees	det
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trees	amod
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 garden	nmod

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

Option 3

In a huge garden full of blooming trees and a little stream running through the middle of it

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 garden	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 garden	det
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 garden	amod
4	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 garden	amod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 trees	case
7	blooming	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 trees	amod
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 full	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stream	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stream	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stream	amod
12	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 garden	conj
13	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 stream	acl
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 middle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 middle	det
16	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 running	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bloom	gerund							vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	gerund	a little stream not said here			the middle of middle			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through middle=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

In a big garden with blooming apple trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 garden	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 garden	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 garden	amod
4	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	SCONJ	_	6 blooming	mark
6	blooming	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 garden	acl
7	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trees	compound
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 blooming	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bloom	gerund	a big garden not said here	apple trees					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme

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