Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the du…

Yo, did his mum back him up when the others got nasty?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: him, others · What happens: do back, get · To what, where: mum

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mum	nmod:poss
5	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
8	up	up	ADP	_	3 did	compound:prt
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 got	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 others	det
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 got	nsubj
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
13	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 got	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do back	past	him = he	his mum					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Eventuality
2	get	past	the others					nasty property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

yeah, she told them to leave him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 leave	mark
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 leave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	him = he					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

yeah, she told them to leave him alone at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 leave	mark
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 leave	obj
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	7 leave	advmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	him = he				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme at once=Location

Option 3

yeah, she told them all to leave him alone right then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 them	nmod:unmarked
7	to	to	PART	_	8 leave	mark
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 leave	obj
10	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 leave	advmod
11	right	right	ADV	_	12 then	advmod
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here	him = he			then	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

yeah, she told them to stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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