Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Thumbelina, part 65: Thumbelina finds a…

no cap the swallow had a wing ripped on a bramble, rip

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cap · What happens: have, rip · To what, where: wing, bramble

This is test 7 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 swallow	det
4	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wing	det
7	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	ripped	rip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wing	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 bramble	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bramble	det
11	bramble	bramble	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ripped	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rip	punct
13	rip	rip	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bramble	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	no cap	a wing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
2	rip	participle		a wing not said here		a bramble and rip			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

yeah, now he can't fly as fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 fly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 fly	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fly	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fly	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fly	advmod
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 fast	advmod
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fly	can	he				now	fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

yeah, now he can't fly as fast as the others in the autumn

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 fly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 fly	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fly	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fly	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fly	advmod
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 fast	advmod
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 fly	advmod
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 others	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 others	det
12	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fly	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 autumn	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 autumn	det
15	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fly	can	he				now; autumn	as the others; fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

yeah, now he can't sing well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 sing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 sing	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sing	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 sing	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 sing	advmod
7	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 sing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sing speech: express	can	he				now	well property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 4

yeah, now he can't fly as fast and he's sad about it all

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 fly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 fly	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fly	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fly	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fly	advmod
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 fast	advmod
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 fly	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sad	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sad	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sad	cop
13	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fly	conj
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sad	obl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fly	can	he				now	fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	he					about it; sad property	tree rules

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