Test 6 · ★ · Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8: Kaela dies and Alf…

what's the bit about the swan, fam?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bit · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 797 «Andersen, The Sculptor's Bride, part 8: Kaela dies and Alfred weds Sophy» 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	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 swan	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 swan	det
7	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fam	punct
9	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swan	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the bit about the swan and fam						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

he was a swan among the geese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 swan	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 swan	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 swan	det
4	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	among	among	ADP	_	7 geese	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 geese	det
7	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 swan	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a swan				among the geese	tree rules

Option 2

he was a bird that looked odd

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bird	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bird	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 looked	nsubj
6	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bird	acl:relcl
7	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 looked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a bird					tree rules
2	look	past	a bird					odd property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he looked like a swan that had been put with geese and felt out of place

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 swan	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 swan	det
5	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 put	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 put	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 put	aux:pass
9	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 swan	acl:relcl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 geese	case
11	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 put	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 felt	cc
13	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	16 place	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 place	case
16	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	he		like a swan	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	put	past · perfect · passive		a swan	with geese	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
3	feel out	past	he not said here	place		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he looked like a swan with geese

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 swan	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 swan	det
5	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 geese	case
7	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	he					like a swan; with geese	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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