Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Ara…

What did stork-mamma say was mortifying, like super annoying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mamma say · What happens: do, mortify

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 896 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks: Helga is wed to an Arab prince at the storks' house» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mamma	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 stork	punct
5	mamma	mamma	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	compound
6	say	say	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mortifying	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mortifying	aux
8	mortifying	mortify	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 did	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 annoying	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 annoying	case
11	super	super	ADV	_	12 annoying	advmod
12	annoying	annoying	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 mortifying	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	mortify	past · progressive	mamma say						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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

We fly far and no one cares

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 fly	nsubj
2	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 fly	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cares	cc
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cares	nsubj
7	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	We					far property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	care	present	no one						vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

No one appreciates what we do, even the doctor's hood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 appreciates	nsubj
3	appreciates	appreciate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 appreciates	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hood	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	12 hood	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 doctor	det
10	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hood	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 doctor	case
12	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 appreciates	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appreciate	present	no one	the doctor's hood					vn comprehend-87.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	present	we						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No one appreciates what we do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 appreciates	nsubj
3	appreciates	appreciate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 appreciates	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appreciate	present	no one						vn comprehend-87.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	present	we						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 4

That the big house ignores the storks who bring luck every spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 ignores	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 house	amod
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ignores	nsubj
5	ignores	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 storks	det
7	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ignores	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 bring	nsubj
9	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 storks	acl:relcl
10	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bring	obj
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 spring	det
12	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	present	That	the storks					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stork=Theme
2	bring	present	the storks	luck			spring		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=Theme

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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