Test 12 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, part 1: the Queen is t…

Lol, how many ducklings came out of the eggs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many ducklings · What happens: come out · To what, where: eggs

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1712 «Old Indian Legends, The White Duck, part 1: the Queen is tricked into the pond and becomes a White Duck» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ducklings	amod
5	ducklings	duckling	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 eggs	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 eggs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eggs	det
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	many ducklings	the eggs					vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient egg=Result

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

Two little fluffy ones and a drake, who swam off across the pond together

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ones	nummod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
3	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 drake	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 drake	det
7	drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ones	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 swam	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 swam	nsubj
10	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ones	conj
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 swam	compound:prt
12	across	across	ADP	_	14 pond	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pond	det
14	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swam	obl
15	together	together	ADV	_	10 swam	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim off	past	Two little fluffy ones and a drake			the pond		together property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across pond=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Two little fluffy ones and a drake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ones	nummod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
3	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 drake	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 drake	det
7	drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ones	conj

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

Option 3

Two fluffy ones and a grey hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 ones	nummod
2	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hen	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hen	det
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hen	amod
7	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ones	conj

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

Option 4

Two little fluffy ones and a drake, all of them very ugly indeed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 ones	nummod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
3	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	amod
4	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 drake	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 drake	det
7	drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ones	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ugly	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 ugly	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 all	nmod
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 ugly	advmod
13	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ones	conj
14	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	13 ugly	advmod

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

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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