Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Thumbelina, part 65: Thumbelina finds a…
so the swallow was late and just got stuck there? rough
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: swallow · What happens: be, get
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1741 «Andersen's Tales, Thumbelina, part 65: Thumbelina finds a frozen swallow and nurses him back to life» 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 late | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 swallow | det |
| 3 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 late | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 late | cop |
| 5 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 got | cc |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 late | conj |
| 9 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 got | xcomp |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 got | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 late | punct |
| 12 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 late | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the swallow | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the swallow not said here | there | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | be | the swallow not said here | tree rules |
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
yeah, too cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 cold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 cold | advmod |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
yeah, he stayed to help the mole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stayed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 help | mark |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stayed | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mole | det |
| 8 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 help | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | he | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | he not said here | the mole | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Beneficiary |
Option 3
yeah, he got too cold to leave the tunnel and then he froze
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 cold | advmod |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 leave | mark |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tunnel | det |
| 10 | tunnel | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 froze | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 froze | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 froze | nsubj |
| 14 | froze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | cold property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | he not said here | the tunnel | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tunnel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | freeze | past | he | then | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he got too cold to leave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 cold | advmod |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 leave | mark |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cold | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | cold property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | he not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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