Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the d…

Be real, how long did the duckling chill in the rushes after the shots?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, do · To what, where: duckling chill, rushes

This is test 2 · ★ 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	_	6 did	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 did	advmod
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 real	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 chill	det
8	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chill	compound
9	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 rushes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 rushes	det
12	rushes	rush	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 chill	nmod
13	after	after	ADP	_	15 shots	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shots	det
15	shots	shot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rushes	nmod
16	?	?	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	do	past		the duckling chill		the rushes after the shots		long property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chill=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 · ← Mova's choice

Like the whole morning and then some more hours until the sun went down over the moor

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Like	like	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hours	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 hours	advmod
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 hours	det
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 hours	amod
9	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 morning	conj
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 went	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 moor	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 moor	det
17	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go down	past	the sun			the moor	morning	down property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over moor=Location

Option 2

Till the hunters had all gone home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Till	till	ADP	_	3 hunters	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hunters	det
3	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 gone	advmod
6	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 home	amod
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the hunters	gone home					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Till late in the day, then hours more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Till	till	SCONJ	_	2 late	mark
2	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hours	advcl
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 day	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 late	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 late	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 hours	advmod
8	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 more	obl:unmarked
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 4

Till the next morning, like the whole night and then the next day too

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Till	till	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 night	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 night	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 night	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 night	amod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 morning	appos
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 day	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 day	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 day	det
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 day	amod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 morning	conj
15	too	too	ADV	_	14 day	advmod

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

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