Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duck calls on his frien…

Did Drakestail sing the whole time, or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Drakestail · What happens: sing

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1551 «Fairy Tales (pg540), Drakestail: a duck calls on his friends to get back what the King owes him» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sing	aux
2	Drakestail	Drakestail	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sing	nsubj
3	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 sing	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · do-support	Drakestail				time		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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

Yeah, he kept on quacking quack quack the whole way to the palace, non stop

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 kept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 quacking	mark
6	quacking	quack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 kept	advcl
7	quack	quack	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 quack	amod
8	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quacking	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 way	amod
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quacking	obl:unmarked
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 palace	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 palace	det
14	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quacking	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 non	punct
16	non	non	ADV	_	4 kept	parataxis
17	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 non	goeswith

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	quack	gerund	he not said here	quack quack				to the palace; the whole way obl:unmarked	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent quack=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he sang on and on, non stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sang	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 sang	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 on	cc
7	on	on	ADV	_	5 on	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 non	punct
9	non	non	ADV	_	4 sang	conj
10	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 non	goeswith

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	he						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, quack quack quack, non stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 quack	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 quack	punct
3	quack	quack	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quack	amod
4	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quack	compound
5	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stop	punct
7	non	non	ADV	_	8 stop	compound
8	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quack	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yeah, quack quack quack all the way down the road and into the King's hall, non stop

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 quack	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 quack	punct
3	quack	quack	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quack	amod
4	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quack	compound
5	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 way	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quack	nmod:unmarked
9	down	down	ADP	_	11 road	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 road	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hall	cc
13	into	into	ADP	_	17 hall	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 hall	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 King	case
17	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 road	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stop	punct
19	non	non	ADV	_	20 stop	compound
20	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 quack	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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