Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie, part 138: Hjalmar sai…

bruh, what did the turkey say about the stork's legs, fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: turkey · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 927 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Ole-Luk-Oie, part 138: Hjalmar sails with Ole, rescues a tired stork, and rides to a mouse wedding» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
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 turkey	det
6	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	about	about	ADP	_	12 legs	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stork	det
10	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 legs	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 stork	case
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fr	punct
14	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 legs	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 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	say speech: assert	present	the turkey					about the stork's legs and fr	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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

how many birds could stand on them at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 birds	amod
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stand	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stand	aux
5	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stand	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	could	many birds					on them = they	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on they=Location

Option 2

whether they cost more than his feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	3 cost	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cost	nsubj
3	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 cost	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 feathers	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feathers	nmod:poss
7	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	they	more					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value

Option 3

how they were painted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 painted	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 painted	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 painted	aux:pass
4	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past · passive		they					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

what they cost a yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 cost	obj
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cost	nsubj
3	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 yard	det
5	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	past	they	a yard					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme what=Beneficiary yard=Value

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