Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 1: a singing-bird…

Real talk, why was the duck so grumpy when she woke?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: duck · What happens: be, wake · To what, where: duck

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 duck	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 duck	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 duck	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 duck	det
7	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	appos
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 grumpy	advmod
9	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 duck	amod
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 woke	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 woke	nsubj
12	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grumpy	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the duck					tree rules
2	wake	past	duck						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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

she had slept badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 slept	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 slept	aux
3	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 slept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past · perfect	she					badly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

she was hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					hungry property	tree rules

Option 3

she had a bad dream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dream	det
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dream	amod
5	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	a bad dream					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

she had not slept well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slept	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 slept	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 slept	advmod
4	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 slept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sleep	past · perfect	she					well property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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