Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a prou…

wait, what did the boys do with the bird?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, boys · What happens: wait, do

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 812 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Darning Needle, part 1: a proud needle is lost in a gutter» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
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	1 wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boys	det
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 bird	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past		with the bird	tree rules
3	do	present	the boys		vn act-114-1 «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

wrapped it in cloth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 wrapped	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 cloth	case
4	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wrapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	past		it		cloth			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cloth=Destination

Option 2

gave it to the cook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 gave	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 cook	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cook	det
5	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		it	the cook				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to cook=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

buried it with flowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 buried	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 flowers	case
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past		it				with flowers	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

threw it away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 threw	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 threw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw away	past		it				away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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