Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling: the duckling fl…

Knud was scared of water and never swam, huh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Knud · What happens: be, not swim

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Knud	Knud	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 water	case
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 swam	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 swam	advmod
8	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 huh	punct
10	huh	huh	INTJ	_	3 scared	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Knud					of water; scared property	tree rules
2	not swim	past	Knud not said here						vn run-51.3.2-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was so scared he wouldn't even join the splashing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 join	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 join	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 join	advmod
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 join	advmod
11	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 scared	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 splashing	det
13	splashing	splashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 join	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules
2	not join	would	he	the splashing					vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splashing=Patient

Option 2

Yeah, he was so scared he wouldn't even join the splashing kids in the stream or the sea

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 join	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 join	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 join	advmod
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 join	advmod
11	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 scared	ccomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kids	det
13	splashing	splashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kids	compound
14	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 join	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 stream	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stream	det
17	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 join	obl
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 sea	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sea	det
20	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stream	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules
2	not join	would	he	the splashing kids		the stream or the sea			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient

Option 3

Nah, he swam all the time but only in the church pond behind the big ivy wall

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 swam	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swam	nsubj
4	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 time	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swam	obl:unmarked
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 pond	cc
9	only	only	ADV	_	13 pond	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 pond	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pond	det
12	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pond	compound
13	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swam	conj
14	behind	behind	ADP	_	18 wall	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wall	det
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wall	amod
17	ivy	ivy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wall	compound
18	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pond	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	he				time		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he was scared, so he sat on the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 scared	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 sat	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 bank	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bank	det
12	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules
2	sit	past	he			the bank			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location

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