Exam question 2 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the du…
By what means did the duckling leave the duckyard during the night?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: duckling · What happens: mean, leave · To what, where: duckyard
This is exam question 2 of lesson 1148 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the duckling is bullied, flees to the moor, survives the hunt and reaches a cottage» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 what | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 leave | obl |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 leave | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 duckling | det |
| 6 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | nsubj |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 duckyard | det |
| 9 | duckyard | duckyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | obj |
| 10 | during | during | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 leave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | leave | past · do-support | the duckling | the duckyard | night | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent duckyard=Theme by what=Location |
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
through an open door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | through | through | ADP | _ | 4 door | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 3 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 door | amod |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
through an open door while everyone slept
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | through | through | ADP | _ | 4 door | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 door | det |
| 3 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 door | amod |
| 4 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 slept | mark |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 slept | nsubj |
| 7 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 door | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | everyone | a open door not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
Option 3
over the wall at dusk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | over | over | ADP | _ | 3 wall | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wall | det |
| 3 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 dusk | case |
| 5 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wall | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
under the old fence
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | under | under | ADP | _ | 4 fence | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fence | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fence | amod |
| 4 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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