Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the d…

Ngl, what was the hen's whole ego about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be · To what, where: whole ego

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ego	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 ego	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ego	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hen	det
6	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ego	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 hen	case
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ego	amod
9	ego	ego	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ngl	appos
10	about	about	ADP	_	9 ego	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ngl	the hen's whole ego					tree rules

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

They thought they were the better half of the whole world and that the duckling knew nothing at all about anything important

The tree, 22 words

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 half	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 half	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 half	det
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 half	amod
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 thought	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 world	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 world	amod
11	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 half	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 knew	cc
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 knew	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 duckling	det
15	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 knew	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 knew	obl
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 anything	case
21	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 knew	obl
22	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 anything	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	they	the better half		of the whole world	tree rules
3	know	past	the duckling	nothing	all	about anything	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They thought they were the better half of the world

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 half	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 half	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 half	det
6	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 half	amod
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 thought	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 half	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	they	the better half				of the world	tree rules

Option 3

They believed they were the superior half of everything in the world and that nobody else mattered much

The tree, 18 words

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 believed	nsubj
2	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 half	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 half	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 half	det
6	superior	superior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 half	amod
7	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 believed	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 everything	case
9	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 half	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 everything	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mattered	cc
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 mattered	nsubj
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 mattered	nsubj
16	else	else	ADV	_	15 nobody	advmod
17	mattered	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 believed	conj
18	much	much	ADV	_	17 mattered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	believe	past	They			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	they	the superior half	of everything	tree rules
3	matter	past	that			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

They thought the world ran by their rules alone

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 world	det
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 rules	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 rules	nmod:poss
8	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ran	obl
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	They		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	run	past	the world	by their rules; alone property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by rule=Trajectory
3	rule		their = they		nom rule «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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