Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hur…

so the duck dunked him in what, a water-trough?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: duck · What happens: dunk · To what, where: him

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 942 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hurt songbird lands in a farmyard and is cared for by a duck» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 dunked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 duck	det
3	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dunked	nsubj
4	dunked	dunk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dunked	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 what	case
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 dunked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trough	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 trough	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trough	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 water	punct
12	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 what	acl:relcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dunked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dunk	past	the duck	him = he					vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme in what=Trajectory

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 · ✓ the right answer

the water-trough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trough	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trough	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 water	punct
4	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

the mud puddle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 puddle	det
2	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 puddle	compound
3	puddle	puddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

the rain barrel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 barrel	det
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 barrel	compound
3	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

the big wooden water-trough by the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 trough	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trough	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trough	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trough	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 water	punct
6	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 gate	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gate	det
9	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trough	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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