Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels…

the beetles in the ditch wanted him to step into what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beetles, him · What happens: want, step · To what, where: him

This is test 12 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beetles	det
2	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wanted	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 ditch	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ditch	det
5	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beetles	nmod
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wanted	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 step	mark
9	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanted	xcomp
10	into	into	ADP	_	11 what	case
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 step	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the beetles in the ditch	him = he					tree rules
2	step not said to happen	to-infinitive	him = he not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into what=Destination

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

Hay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Rich mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mud	amod
2	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Warm soup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 soup	amod
2	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Dirt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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