Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf: pro…

fr, what did the toads do in her dress?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr, toads · What happens: do · To what, where: dress

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 832 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf: proud Inge tramples bread, sinks into the marsh and is punished» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
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	6 toads	det
6	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 dress	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dress	nmod:poss
10	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	fr						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the toads			fr's dress			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 · ← Mova's choice

croaked loudly all night like a poodle barking at the moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	croaked	croak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 croaked	advmod
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 night	det
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 croaked	obl:unmarked
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 poodle	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 poodle	det
7	poodle	poodle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 croaked	obl
8	barking	bark	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 poodle	acl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 moon	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 moon	det
11	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 barking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	croak	participle					night	like a poodle; loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bark	gerund	a poodle not said here					at the moon	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at moon=Stimulus

Option 2

ran up her sleeves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 ran	compound:prt
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sleeves	nmod:poss
4	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 ran	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run up	past		her sleeves					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sleeve=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

croaked like a poodle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	croaked	croak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	like	like	ADP	_	4 poodle	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 poodle	det
4	poodle	poodle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 croaked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	croak	participle						like a poodle	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

poured out and croaked and hopped all over her shoes and face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	poured	pour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 croaked	advcl
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 poured	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 croaked	cc
4	croaked	croak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hopped	cc
6	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 croaked	conj
7	all	all	ADV	_	10 shoes	advmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 shoes	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 shoes	nmod:poss
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hopped	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 face	cc
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shoes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	pour out	participle		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
2	croak	past		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hop	past	her shoes and face	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shoe=Trajectory

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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