Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels…

ngl, the beetle just walked off with no goodbye, why?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: walk off

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 798 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels: a vain beetle wants golden shoes and finds only mud» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 walked	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beetle	det
4	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 walked	advmod
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 walked	compound:prt
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 goodbye	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 goodbye	det
10	goodbye	goodbye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 why	punct
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 walked	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 walked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk off	past	ngl					with no goodbye	vn resign-10.11-2 «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

He wanted to tell the Emperor about the earwigs and their broken house

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 tell	mark
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Emperor	det
6	Emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 earwigs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 earwigs	det
9	earwigs	earwig	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tell	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 house	cc
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 house	nmod:poss
12	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 house	amod
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 earwigs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	He			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the Emperor	about the earwigs and earwigs's broken house	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent emperor=Recipient about earwig=Topic
3	break	participle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He found the earwig talk boring

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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 talk	det
4	earwig	earwig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talk	compound
5	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
6	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 found	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	He	the earwig talk				boring property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He was scared of the mothers

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	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 mothers	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mothers	det
6	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					of the mothers; scared property	tree rules

Option 4

The earwigs insulted him so badly that he stormed off in anger and never came back

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 earwigs	det
2	earwigs	earwig	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 insulted	nsubj
3	insulted	insult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 insulted	obj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 badly	advmod
6	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 insulted	advmod
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 stormed	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stormed	nsubj
9	stormed	storm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 insulted	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 stormed	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 anger	case
12	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stormed	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 came	advmod
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 insulted	conj
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	insult	past	the earwigs	him = he		badly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
2	storm off	past	he		anger		vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	not come back	past	the earwigs not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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