Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 94: Tiny nurses a…
how did the swallow even get hurt, was it a fight?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: swallow, hurt, be · To what, where: fight, it
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 883 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 94: Tiny nurses a frozen swallow while the field-mouse plans her wedding to the mole» 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 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 swallow | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swallow | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 swallow | det |
| 4 | swallow | swallow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 hurt | advmod |
| 6 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hurt | aux:pass |
| 7 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 swallow | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 it | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 it | cop |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swallow | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fight | det |
| 12 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swallow | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 swallow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | past · do-support | a fight | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hurt | infinitive · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | it | 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
yeah, he got hit by a stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 hit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hit | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hit | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hit | aux:pass |
| 5 | hit | hit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 stone | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hit | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past · passive | a stone | he | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
Option 2
nah, a cat got him in the field
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cat | det |
| 4 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 field | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 field | det |
| 9 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | a cat | him = he | the field | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
nah, he got his wing caught in a thorn-bush
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wing | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 got | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 bush | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bush | det |
| 10 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bush | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 thorn | punct |
| 12 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caught | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | his wing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | participle | his wing not said here | a thorn bush | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, a fight lol
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 fight | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fight | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fight | det |
| 4 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 fight | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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