Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His Daughters, part 239…

how did the crows feel about the forest going?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crows · What happens: feel, go

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1028 «Andersen's Tales, Waldemar Daa and His Daughters, part 239: the forest is felled, the ship is never sold, and the gold-making ends in smoke» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 feel	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crows	det
4	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feel	nsubj
5	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	obl
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 feel	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	the crows					about the forest	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about forest=Location
2	go	gerund	the crows not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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

they cawed happily at the new ship

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cawed	nsubj
2	cawed	caw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	happily	happily	ADV	_	2 cawed	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 ship	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ship	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ship	amod
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cawed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	caw	past	they					at the new ship; happily property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at ship=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

dead angry, croaking like they were gutted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 angry	amod
2	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 croaking	punct
4	croaking	croak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 angry	advcl
5	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 gutted	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gutted	nsubj:pass
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gutted	aux:pass
8	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 croaking	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	croak	gerund							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	gut	past · passive		they					vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source

Option 3

they flew off to the north

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 flew	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 north	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 north	det
6	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	they					to the north result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to north=Result

Option 4

they were happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happy	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happy	cop
3	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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