Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the du…

Bruv, why did the old duck reckon the egg was dodgy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old duck, egg · What happens: reckon, be

This is test 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. 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 reckon	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 reckon	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reckon	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 duck	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 duck	amod
7	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reckon	nsubj
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 egg	det
10	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dodgy	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dodgy	cop
12	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 reckon	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the old duck					Bruv vocative	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the egg					dodgy property	tree rules

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

it was a hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hen	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hen	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hen	det
4	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a hen					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it was a turkey's egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 egg	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 egg	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 turkey	det
4	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 egg	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 turkey	case
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a turkey's egg					tree rules

Option 3

it was a goose's egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 egg	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 egg	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 goose	det
4	goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 egg	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 goose	case
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a goose's egg					tree rules

Option 4

a turkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 turkey	det
2	turkey	turkey	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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