Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the du…

Was the dog gonna eat him, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, eat · To what, where: dog

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dog	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	gonna	gonna	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 dog	parataxis
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nah	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 nah	cc
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 eat	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 dog	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the dog					tree rules
2	eat	infinitive		dog					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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

no, it just sniffed him and then left quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 sniffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sniffed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sniffed	advmod
5	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sniffed	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 left	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 left	advmod
9	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sniffed	conj
10	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	9 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff	past	it	him = he					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	leave	past					then	quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

no, it just sniffed and left the yard at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 sniffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sniffed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sniffed	advmod
5	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 left	cc
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sniffed	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 yard	det
9	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 left	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff	past	it						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	past		the yard					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent yard=Theme at once=Location

Option 3

no, it just barked and ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 barked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 barked	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 barked	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 barked	advmod
5	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ran	cc
7	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 barked	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	it						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run	past							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

no, it just sniffed and left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 sniffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sniffed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sniffed	advmod
5	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 left	cc
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sniffed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff	past	it						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	past							vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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