Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the du…

Wait, what did the other ducks do to him, like, all the time?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, other ducks · What happens: wait, do · To what, where: him

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ducks	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ducks	amod
7	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 time	punct
12	like	like	INTJ	_	16 time	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 time	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl:unmarked
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past · do-support	the other ducks		him = he		time		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

they teased and kicked him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 teased	nsubj
2	teased	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 kicked	cc
4	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 teased	conj
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tease	past	they						vn ferret-35.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	kick	past	they not said here	him = he					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

they mocked and nipped him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 mocked	nsubj
2	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 nipped	cc
4	nipped	nip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 mocked	conj
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nipped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	past	they						vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	nip	past	they not said here	him = he					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

they mocked him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 mocked	nsubj
2	mocked	mock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 mocked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	past	they	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

they nipped him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nipped	nsubj
2	nipped	nip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nipped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nip	past	they	him = he					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=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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