Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Moon: the Moon watches a prisoner le…

Dude, what did the ducks get up to on the pond?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dude, ducks · What happens: do, get up · To what, where: pond

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 909 «Andersen's Tales, The Moon: the Moon watches a prisoner leave his cell, then a little girl says her prayers» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ducks	det
6	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	nsubj
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	up	up	ADV	_	7 get	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	8 up	fixed
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 pond	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pond	det
12	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Dude						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get up	present	the ducks			the pond			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on pond=Source

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

hid under the lily pads until the boy went home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	5 pads	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pads	det
4	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pads	compound
5	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 hid	obl
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 went	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 hid	advcl
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past				the lily pads			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under pad=Location
2	go	past	the boy					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

splashed about loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	splashed	splash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	about	about	ADV	_	3 loudly	advmod
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 splashed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	splash about	past						loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

stood on their heads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 heads	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 heads	nmod:poss
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 stood	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past				their heads			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location

Option 4

flapped their wings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wings	nmod:poss
3	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 flapped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flap	past		their wings					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient

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