Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels…

bro, what did the earwig babies nip with their tails?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: earwig babies · What happens: do, nip

This is test 9 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 babies	det
6	earwig	earwig	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 babies	compound
7	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 nip	nsubj
8	nip	nip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 tails	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tails	nmod:poss
11	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 nip	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						bro vocative	tree rules
2	nip	present	the earwig babies					with babies's tails	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Tails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

The frogs' long legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 frogs	det
2	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 legs	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 frogs	case
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 legs	amod
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The beetle's beard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beetle	det
2	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beard	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 beetle	case
4	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Its feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 feet	nmod:poss
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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