Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling: the duckling fl…

The gingerbread man wanted to eat the lady? Major roast!

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gingerbread man · What happens: want, eat · To what, where: lady

This is test 8 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: The gingerbread man wanted to eat the lady?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	compound
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lady	det
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the gingerbread man						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	the gingerbread man not said here	the lady					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=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.

Sentence 2: Major roast!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Major	major	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 roast	amod
2	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 roast	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

Lol, he dreamed of eating her up with four pennies and then he gave the rest to the boy

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 dreamed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dreamed	nsubj
4	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 eating	mark
6	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dreamed	advcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eating	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 eating	compound:prt
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 pennies	case
10	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 pennies	nummod
11	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eating	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gave	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 gave	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gave	nsubj
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dreamed	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rest	det
17	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 boy	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boy	det
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	dream	past	he					vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	eat up	gerund	he not said here	her = she			with four pennies	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	give	past	he	the rest	the boy	then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rest=Theme to boy=Recipient

Option 2

Lol, he wanted to eat her for dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wanted	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eat	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 dinner	case
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	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	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	her = she				for dinner	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Lol, he dreamed of eating her with four pennies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 dreamed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dreamed	nsubj
4	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 eating	mark
6	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 dreamed	advcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 eating	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 pennies	case
9	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 pennies	nummod
10	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dream	past	he						vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	eat	gerund	he not said here	her = she				with four pennies	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he dreamed of marrying her and then eating the cake with four pennies and a glass of milk at the fair

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 dreamed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dreamed	nsubj
4	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 marrying	mark
6	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 dreamed	advcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 marrying	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 eating	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 eating	advmod
10	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 marrying	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cake	det
12	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eating	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 pennies	case
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 pennies	nummod
15	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eating	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 glass	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 glass	det
18	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pennies	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 milk	case
20	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 glass	nmod
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 fair	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fair	det
23	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dream	past	he					vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	marry	gerund	he not said here	her = she				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	eat	gerund	he not said here	the cake	the fair	then	with four pennies and a glass of milk	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient

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