Test 14 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels…

and the three young-lady beetles did what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: three lady beetles · What happens: do

This is test 14 · ★ 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 did	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beetles	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 beetles	nummod
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lady	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 young	punct
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beetles	compound
7	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 did	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the three lady beetles						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Sang a song about the stable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sang	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 song	det
3	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sang	obj
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 stable	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stable	det
6	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sang	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund		a song				about the stable	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Tittered, not knowing what to say

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tittered	titter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knowing	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 knowing	advmod
4	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Tittered	advcl
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 say	mark
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 knowing	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	roles by
1	titter	participle	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not know	gerund	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 3

Argued about who was prettiest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Argued	argue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	about	about	ADP	_	5 prettiest	case
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 prettiest	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prettiest	cop
5	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	1 Argued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	participle							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past						pretty property	tree rules

Option 4

Giggled at him so much they fell over into the mud and could not stop

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giggled	giggle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Giggled	obl
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	7 fell	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Giggled	advcl
8	over	over	ADV	_	7 fell	advmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 mud	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mud	det
11	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stop	cc
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 stop	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 stop	advmod
15	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Giggled	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	giggle	participle		at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall over	past	they	into the mud result; over property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into mud=Result
3	not stop	could			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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