Test 7 · ★ · Andersen, Thumbelina, part 1: a tiny girl grows from a flo…

what did the fishes do, like, to save her?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: fishes · What happens: do, like, save · To what, where: her

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1740 «Andersen, Thumbelina, part 1: a tiny girl grows from a flower and a toad tries to steal her» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fishes	det
4	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 like	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 like	aux
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 like	punct
7	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 did	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 save	punct
9	to	to	PART	_	10 save	mark
10	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 like	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 save	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	like	present · do-support	the fishes		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	save	to-infinitive	the fishes not said here	her = she	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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

Bit the leaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 leaf	det
3	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bit	obj

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

Option 2

Bit it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Bit	obj

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

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

Nibbled the stem

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nibbled	nibble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stem	det
3	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nibbled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nibble	participle		the stem					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=Patient

Option 4

Ate leaves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		leaves					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient

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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