Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling: the duckling fl…

Bro, so the duckling was lowkey scared, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1014 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling: the duckling flies to the swans, sees his own beauty, and is welcomed» 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	8 scared	nsubj:outer
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 scared	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 scared	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 duckling	det
5	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scared	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 scared	cop
7	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	_	8 scared	advmod
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 scared	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	8 scared	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Bro					lowkey, scared property	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

Fr, he'd rather get killed by swans than get pecked by ducks forever, no cap

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 killed	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 killed	nsubj:pass
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 killed	aux
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	7 killed	advmod
6	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 killed	aux:pass
7	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 swans	case
9	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 killed	obl
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 pecked	mark
11	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 pecked	aux:pass
12	pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 killed	advcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 ducks	case
14	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pecked	obl
15	forever	forever	ADV	_	12 pecked	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cap	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 cap	det
18	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 killed	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	would · passive	swans	he				Fr obl	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	peck	infinitive · passive	ducks					forever property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fr, he'd rather get killed by swans than get pecked by ducks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 killed	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fr	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 killed	nsubj:pass
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 killed	aux
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	7 killed	advmod
6	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 killed	aux:pass
7	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 swans	case
9	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 killed	obl
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 pecked	mark
11	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 pecked	aux:pass
12	pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 killed	advcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 ducks	case
14	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pecked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	would · passive	swans	he				Fr obl	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	peck	infinitive · passive	ducks						vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, he just wanted to hang with the ducks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 hang	mark
7	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 ducks	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ducks	det
10	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 hang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hang not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					with the ducks	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, he was actually fine, he just wanted the swans to pick him up and fly him home

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fine	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	cop
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 fine	advmod
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wanted	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wanted	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 wanted	advmod
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fine	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 swans	det
12	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wanted	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 pick	mark
14	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wanted	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pick	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 pick	compound:prt
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fly	cc
18	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 pick	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fly	obj
20	home	home	ADV	_	18 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		actually, fine property	tree rules
2	want	past	he	the swans		tree rules
3	pick up not said to happen	to-infinitive	the swans not said here	him = he		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
4	fly	infinitive	the swans not said here	him = he	home property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme

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