Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 224: the d…

Bruh, when did the swans fly off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: swans · What happens: fly off

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	7 fly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 fly	mark
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fly	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 swans	det
6	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fly	nsubj
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 fly	compound:prt
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 fly	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past · do-support	the swans						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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

In the late evening after the cold rain had stopped falling on the moor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 evening	det
3	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 evening	amod
4	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	obl
5	after	after	ADP	_	8 rain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rain	det
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 rain	amod
8	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 evening	nmod
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stopped	aux
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stopped	xcomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 moor	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 moor	det
14	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 falling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past · perfect					evening		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	fall	gerund				the moor			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on moor=Location

Option 2

Early in the morning, while the frost still covered the reeds and the stream

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 covered	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 morning	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Early	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Early	punct
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 covered	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 frost	det
8	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 covered	obl
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 covered	advmod
10	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 reeds	det
12	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 covered	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stream	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stream	det
15	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reeds	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past		the frost			still	early property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme reed=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

At sunset, when the clouds glowed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	At	at	ADP	_	2 sunset	case
2	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 glowed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sunset	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 glowed	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clouds	det
6	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 glowed	nsubj
7	glowed	glow	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	glow	past	the clouds				sunset		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

When the wind began to blow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 blow	mark
6	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the wind						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	blow	to-infinitive	the wind not said here						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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