Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the du…

Mate, what was the mum's deal with her morning bath?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: deal

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 deal	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 deal	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 deal	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mum	det
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deal	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 mum	case
8	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 bath	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bath	nmod:poss
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bath	compound
12	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 deal	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and the mum's deal	the mum's deal				with her morning bath	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

she skipped her bath for the egg every single morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 skipped	nsubj
2	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bath	nmod:poss
4	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skipped	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 egg	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 egg	det
7	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skipped	obl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 morning	det
9	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 morning	amod
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skipped	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	past	she	her bath			morning	for the egg	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she skipped it for the egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 skipped	nsubj
2	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 skipped	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 egg	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 egg	det
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	past	she	it				for the egg	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

she skipped it for the egg and the nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 skipped	nsubj
2	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 skipped	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 egg	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 egg	det
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skipped	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 nest	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nest	det
9	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 egg	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	past	she	it				for the egg and the nest	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

she gave up her walk for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 gave	compound:prt
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 walk	nmod:poss
5	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	she						tree rules
2	walk	infinitive	she not said here					for it	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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