Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes…

ngl, why did the fishes chew the stalk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: chew · To what, where: stalk

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 882 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes the toads, is carried off, and freezes in winter» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 chew	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 chew	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chew	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fishes	det
6	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chew	nsubj
7	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stalk	det
9	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chew	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 chew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	past · do-support	ngl	the stalk					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stalk=Patient

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

They liked her a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lot	det
5	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 liked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	They	her = she				a lot obl:unmarked	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot she=Theme

Option 2

Because they felt sorry for little Tiny in the water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 felt	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 Tiny	case
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Tiny	amod
7	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	they			the water		for little Tiny; sorry property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for tiny=Theme in water=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They felt bad for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	They					for her = she; bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

They felt very bad for her and wanted to help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 bad	advmod
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bad	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 help	mark
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	feel	past	They	bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	want	past	They not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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