Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 93: Tiny escapes…

lowkey, why did the cockchafers say she was ugly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cockchafers, lowkey · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 why	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lowkey	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cockchafers	det
6	cockchafers	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl:relcl
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ugly	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ugly	cop
10	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 say	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the cockchafers						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	lowkey					ugly 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

She had only two legs and no wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 two	advmod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 legs	nummod
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wings	cc
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 wings	det
8	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 legs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She	two legs and no wings					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Option 2

Her wings were too thin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wings	nmod:poss
2	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thin	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thin	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 thin	advmod
5	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Her wings					thin property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

She had only two legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 two	advmod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 legs	nummod
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	She	two legs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Option 4

Because she had only two legs, not six like them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 two	advmod
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 legs	nummod
6	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 six	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 six	advmod
9	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 had	parataxis
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 six	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	two legs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

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