Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 10…

lol, what was too hard for papa stork to get?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, get

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 890 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 101: the storks plan to hide the swan feathers» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 hard	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 hard	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hard	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 stork	case
8	papa	papa	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stork	compound
9	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hard	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hard	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 hard	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						for papa stork; hard property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive							vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

what the learned men said about love and the lotus from the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 said	obj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 men	det
3	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 love	case
7	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 lotus	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lotus	det
10	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 love	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 sea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sea	det
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	participle							vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the learned men			the sea		about love and the lotus	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 2

what the wise men said of the lotus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 said	obj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 men	det
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 lotus	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lotus	det
8	lotus	lotus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the wise men					of the lotus	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

what the learned men said about love

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 said	obj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 men	det
3	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 love	case
7	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	participle							vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the learned men					about love	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 4

why the learned men wrote of love

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 wrote	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 men	det
3	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wrote	nsubj
5	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 love	case
7	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrote	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	participle							vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	write	past	the learned men					of love	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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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