Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling: the duckling fl…

Why didn't the cake lady just say something, bruh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cake lady · What happens: not say · To what, where: something · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 say	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 say	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lady	det
5	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lady	compound
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 say	advmod
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 say	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
11	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	8 say	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past · do-support	the cake lady	something					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent something=Topic

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

She wanted him to speak to the baker first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 speak	mark
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 baker	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 baker	det
8	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 speak	obl
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	She	him = he					tree rules
2	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here					to the baker; first property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to baker=Co-Agent

Option 2

She thought he should say hello first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	hello	hello	INTJ	_	5 say	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 say	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	should	he					first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic

Option 3

She was too shy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 shy	advmod
4	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	She					shy property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

She thought the man should be the one to speak first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 one	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 one	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 speak	mark
10	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 one	acl
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 speak	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	She			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	should	the man	the one		tree rules
3	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	She not said here		first property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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