Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird…

Random, what noise did the ducks make when they cried?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Random, ducks · What happens: make, cry

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 943 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird dies, and a porter's boy saves a nursery from fire» 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	Random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 make	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 make	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	obj
4	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 make	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ducks	det
7	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 make	nsubj
8	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 cried	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	nsubj
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 make	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · do-support	Random						vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
2	cry speech: express	past	ducks = duck						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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

a noisy clucking sound all through the yard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sound	det
2	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sound	amod
3	clucking	cluck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 sound	amod
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	all	all	ADV	_	8 yard	advmod
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 yard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 yard	det
8	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sound	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cluck	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a noisy clucking sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sound	det
2	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sound	amod
3	clucking	cluck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 sound	amod
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cluck	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

a very loud clucking sound with wings flapping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sound	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 loud	advmod
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sound	amod
4	clucking	cluck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sound	amod
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 wings	case
7	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sound	nmod
8	flapping	flap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 wings	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cluck	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	flap	gerund	wings not said here						vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

a loud quacking noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 noise	det
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 noise	amod
3	quacking	quack	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 noise	amod
4	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quack	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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