Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending,…

What did the cock do on the farm, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cock · What happens: do · To what, where: farm

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 296 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elder-Tree Mother: the ending, Remembrance flies through the seasons and the old couple wear golden crowns» 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 cock	det
4	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 farm	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 farm	det
8	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	5 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the cock			the farm			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Scratched dirt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scratched	scratch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dirt	amod
2	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scratch	participle							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Pecked the corn for the geese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pecked	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 corn	det
3	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pecked	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 geese	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 geese	det
6	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pecked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peck	past		the corn				for the geese	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Scraped the earth for the hens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Scraped	scrape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 earth	det
3	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Scraped	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 hens	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hens	det
6	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Scraped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrape	past		the earth				for the hens	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Patient

Option 4

Strutted about the yard proudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strutted	strut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	4 yard	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 yard	det
4	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Strutted	obl
5	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	1 Strutted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strut	participle						about the yard; proudly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about yard=Trajectory

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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