Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes…

Bruv, what were the hens and ducks doing, proper noisy innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv, ducks · What happens: be, do · To what, where: hens

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 946 «Andersen's Tales, The Porter's Son, part 157: George comes back, asks for Emily's hand, and is refused» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hens	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 hens	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hens	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hens	det
6	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bruv	appos
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ducks	cc
8	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hens	conj
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 ducks	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 innit	amod
12	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 innit	amod
13	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bruv	appos
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bruv	the hens and ducks					tree rules
2	do	gerund	ducks not said here						vn act-114-1 «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

Flapping about and squawking loudly at the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	about	about	ADV	_	1 Flapping	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 squawking	cc
4	squawking	squawk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Flapping	conj
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	4 squawking	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 gate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gate	det
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 squawking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flap	gerund						about property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	squawk	gerund						at the gate; loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at gate=Stimulus

Option 2

Gobbling and honking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gobbling	gobble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 honking	cc
3	honking	honk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Gobbling	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Clucking and quacking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clucking	cluck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 quacking	cc
3	quacking	quack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Clucking	conj

#	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	quack	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Clucking and quacking all over the yard like mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clucking	cluck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 quacking	cc
3	quacking	quack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Clucking	conj
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 yard	advmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 yard	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 yard	det
7	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Clucking	obl
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 mad	case
9	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Clucking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cluck	gerund						over the yard; like mad	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	quack	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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