Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Thumbelina, part 94: Tiny nurses a…

why did the mole act all cautious, was he hiding something?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mole · What happens: act, hide · To what, where: something

This is test 8 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 act	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 act	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mole	det
4	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 act	nsubj
5	act	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hiding	advcl
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 cautious	advmod
7	cautious	cautious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 act	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 act	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hiding	aux
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hiding	nsubj
11	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 hiding	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 hiding	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	past · do-support	the mole					cautious property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hide	past · progressive	mole	something					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=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 · ✓ the right answer

he didn't want anyone scared of the dead bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 want	advmod
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 want	obj
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 want	xcomp
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 bird	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bird	det
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	he	anyone				scared property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot anyone=Theme

Option 2

he was hiding loot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hiding	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hiding	aux
3	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	loot	loot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · progressive	he	loot					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loot=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he was afraid of the dead bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 afraid	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 bird	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 afraid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					of the dead bird; afraid property	tree rules

Option 4

he wanted to hide the bird from the field-mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 hide	mark
4	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 mouse	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mouse	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mouse	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 field	punct
11	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the bird				from the field mouse	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bird=Patient from mouse=Beneficiary

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