Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Portuguese Duck, part 1: a hur…

what word did the little duck make a joke with, the one that sounds like Portugal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: word, little duck, one · What happens: do, make, sound · To what, where: joke

This is test 8 · ★ 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	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 word	det
2	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 duck	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 duck	amod
6	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 joke	det
9	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 one	case
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 joke	nmod
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sounds	nsubj
15	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 one	acl:relcl
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 Portugal	case
17	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sounds	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	what word			tree rules
2	make	present	the little duck	a joke	with the one	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joke=Product
3	sound	present	the one		like Portugal	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

Lisbon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lisbon	Lisbon	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Porto

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Porto	Porto	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Portulak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Portulak	Portulak	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a silly pun on Portugal's name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pun	det
2	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pun	amod
3	pun	pun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 name	case
5	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 name	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Portugal	case
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pun	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name		Portugal						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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