Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beetle marries, leaves h…

the fly was like "beautiful weather" and the beetle was mad, why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fly · What happens: be

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 799 «Andersen's Tales, The Beetle: the beetle marries, leaves his wife, and is rescued from the sea» 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 fly	det
2	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 weather	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 weather	case
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 weather	punct
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weather	amod
7	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fly	nmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 weather	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 mad	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 beetle	det
11	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mad	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mad	cop
13	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 why	punct
15	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 mad	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past						like beautiful weather	tree rules
2	is	past	the fly					mad property	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 · ← Mova's choice

cos he was hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hungry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	cos not said here				hungry property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cos the fly wasn't stuck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fly	det
3	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stuck	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stuck	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 stuck	advmod
6	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	not is	past	the fly					stuck property	tree rules

Option 3

cos it was free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 free	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 free	cop
4	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is	past	it					free property	tree rules

Option 4

'cos the fly was bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 bored	punct
2	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 fly	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fly	det
4	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bored	obl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bored	cop
6	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						cos the fly; bored property	tree rules

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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