Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling: the duckling fl…

The duckling was so shook he hid his head, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: duckling, he · What happens: be, hide · To what, where: shook, head

This is test 4 · ★ 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 duckling	det
2	duckling	duckling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shook	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shook	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 shook	advmod
5	shook	shook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hid	nsubj
7	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shook	acl:relcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hid	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cap	punct
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 cap	det
12	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shook	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 shook	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the duckling	shook and no cap					tree rules
2	hide	past	he	his head					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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

No cap, he hid because he was shy and wanted to be alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hid	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hid	nsubj
5	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 shy	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 shy	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shy	cop
9	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hid	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wanted	cc
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hid	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	14 alone	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 alone	cop
14	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hide	past	no cap		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he	shy property	tree rules
3	want	past	no cap not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
4	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	no cap not said here	alone property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he just wanted a nap under his wing because the water was cold and he was tired

The tree, 18 words

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 nap	det
7	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 wing	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wing	nmod:poss
10	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obl
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 cold	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cold	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 cold	cop
15	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wanted	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tired	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tired	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 tired	cop
19	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cold	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	a nap	his wing		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nap=Theme
2	is	past	the water			cold property	tree rules
3	is	past	he			tired property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No cap, he hid his head because he was too happy to even be proud of himself and his new swan feathers

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hid	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hid	nsubj
5	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hid	obj
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 happy	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 happy	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 happy	cop
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 happy	advmod
12	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hid	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	16 proud	mark
14	even	even	ADV	_	16 proud	advmod
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 proud	cop
16	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 happy	ccomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 proud	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 feathers	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feathers	nmod:poss
21	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 feathers	amod
22	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 feathers	compound
23	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 himself	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hide	past	no cap	his head		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	is	past	he		happy property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	he not said here		of himself = he; proud property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No cap, he was too happy to even be proud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 happy	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 happy	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 happy	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 happy	advmod
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	11 proud	mark
9	even	even	ADV	_	11 proud	advmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 proud	cop
11	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 happy	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	no cap					happy property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	no cap not said here					proud property	tree rules

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