Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling: the duckling fl…

Wait, did the swans actually try to end him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, swans · What happens: wait, try, end · To what, where: him

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 try	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 try	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 swans	det
5	swans	swan	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 try	nsubj
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 try	advmod
7	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 end	mark
9	end	end	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 try	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 end	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try	past · do-support	the swans		actually property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	end not said to happen	to-infinitive	the swans not said here	him = he		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=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

Yeah, they came at him but then swam off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 swam	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 swam	advmod
9	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 swam	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	they					at him = he	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location
2	swim off	past	they not said here				then		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they came at him wings out, then they vibed with him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 wings	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wings	nsubj
7	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
8	out	out	ADP	_	4 came	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 vibed	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 vibed	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 vibed	nsubj
12	vibed	vibe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 vibed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	they			wings			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	vibe	past	wings = wing				then	with him = he	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, they circled him and then said hi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 circled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 circled	nsubj
4	circled	circle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 circled	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 said	advmod
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 circled	conj
9	hi	hi	INTJ	_	8 said	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	circle	past	they	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	they not said here				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, they just chilled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 chilled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chilled	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 chilled	advmod
5	chilled	chill	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	chill	past	they						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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