Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the du…
Ngl, where did the poor duckling end up walking to?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl, poor duckling · What happens: do, end up, walk
This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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 | Ngl | Ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ngl | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 duckling | det |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 duckling | amod |
| 7 | duckling | duckling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | nsubj |
| 8 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 end | compound:prt |
| 10 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 did | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 walking | fixed |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Ngl | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | end up | present | the poor duckling | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | walk | gerund | Ngl not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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
a tumbledown cottage
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cottage | det |
| 2 | tumbledown | tumbledown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cottage | compound |
| 3 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a tumbledown cottage at the edge of the marsh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cottage | det |
| 2 | tumbledown | tumbledown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cottage | compound |
| 3 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 edge | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 edge | det |
| 6 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cottage | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 marsh | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 marsh | det |
| 9 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 edge | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
an empty old house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 2 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 house | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 house | amod |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a tumbledown cottage with a broken door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cottage | det |
| 2 | tumbledown | tumbledown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cottage | amod |
| 3 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 6 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 door | amod |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cottage | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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