Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Thumbelina, part 65: Thumbelina finds a…

that mole had the most cursed legs ever, they were bandy

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mole, legs · What happens: have, curse, be · To what, where: cursed legs

This is test 8 · ★ 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	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 mole	det
2	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 legs	det
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 cursed	advmod
6	cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 legs	amod
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 had	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bandy	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bandy	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bandy	cop
12	bandy	bandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	that mole	the cursed legs	ever		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
2	curse	participle					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	legs = leg			bandy property	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 · ✓ the right answer

ikr, bowed out at the knee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ikr	ikr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bowed	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ikr	punct
3	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 bowed	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 knee	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 knee	det
7	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow out	participle				the knee			vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

ikr, crooked at the feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ikr	ikr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 crooked	punct
3	crooked	crook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 ikr	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 feet	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 feet	det
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crooked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crook	participle		ikr not said here		the feet			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

ikr, bowed out at the knee like a bent stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ikr	ikr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bowed	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bowed	punct
3	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 bowed	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 knee	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 knee	det
7	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bowed	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 stick	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stick	det
10	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stick	amod
11	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow out	participle · passive		ikr		the knee		like a bent stick	tree rules

Option 4

ikr, bent in at the knee

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ikr	ikr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bent	punct
3	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 ikr	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 knee	case
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 knee	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 knee	det
7	knee	knee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	participle		ikr not said here		the knee			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in knee=Location

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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