Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the d…

Real talk, why did the hen tell him to hold his tongue?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hen · What happens: tell, hold · To what, where: him, tongue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 tell	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hen	det
7	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 hold	mark
11	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tell	xcomp
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tongue	nmod:poss
13	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hold	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the hen		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	hold not said to happen	to-infinitive	the hen not said here	his tongue					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme

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

He was too young to speak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 young	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 young	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 young	advmod
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 speak	mark
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 young	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					young property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	He not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He had no egg-laying skills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 skills	det
4	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laying	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 egg	punct
6	laying	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 skills	amod
7	skills	skill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	no laying skills					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Patient
2	lay	gerund							vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He was too loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loud	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 loud	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 loud	advmod
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					loud property	tree rules

Option 4

He was clumsy and kept knocking over the milk pan and the chairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 clumsy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clumsy	cop
3	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 kept	cc
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clumsy	conj
6	knocking	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	over	over	ADP	_	10 pan	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pan	det
9	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pan	compound
10	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knocking	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 chairs	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 chairs	det
13	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pan	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	He		clumsy property	tree rules
2	keep	past	He not said here			tree rules
3	knock	gerund	He not said here	the milk pan and the chairs		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over pan=Location

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