Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ugly Duckling, part 14: the du…
Dude, what did the wild ducks reckon about his looks?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dude, wild ducks · What happens: do, reckon
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ducks | det |
| 6 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ducks | compound |
| 7 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reckon | nsubj |
| 8 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 looks | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 looks | nmod:poss |
| 11 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reckon | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Dude | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reckon | present | the wild ducks | about Dude's looks | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
ugly, but none of their business
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 none | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 none | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 none | cc |
| 4 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 business | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 business | nmod:poss |
| 7 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 none | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
ugly, but none of their business at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 business | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 business | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 business | cc |
| 4 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 7 business | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 business | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 business | nmod:poss |
| 7 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 business | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
ugly, but none of their business and not to bother
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bother | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 bother | cc |
| 4 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 11 bother | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 business | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 business | nmod:poss |
| 7 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 none | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bother | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 bother | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bother | mark |
| 11 | bother | bother | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 ugly | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bother | to-infinitive | none | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
ugly, yet none of their concern
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 none | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 none | punct |
| 3 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 none | cc |
| 4 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 concern | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 concern | nmod:poss |
| 7 | concern | concern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 none | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | concern | their = they | nom concern «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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