Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the du…

Real talk, why did he bounce out of the yard at night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: bounce

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bounce	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 bounce	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bounce	aux
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 bounce	nsubj
7	bounce	bounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 yard	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 yard	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 yard	det
11	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bounce	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bounce	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce	past · do-support	he				night	out the yard	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out yard=Trajectory

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

he was bullied

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bullied	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bullied	aux:pass
3	bullied	bully	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bully	past · passive		he					vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he got bullied too much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bullied	nsubj:pass
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bullied	aux:pass
3	bullied	bully	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bullied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bully	past · passive		he					tree rules

Option 3

he got lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	lose	participle	he not said here						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he was lonely by night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lonely	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lonely	cop
3	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lonely	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he				night	lonely property	tree rules

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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