Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and…
Did the birds get scared when Soren climbed up?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: birds, Soren · What happens: get, climb up
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 948 «Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and Soren rob the birds' nests» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 birds | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 birds | det |
| 3 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | xcomp |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 climbed | advmod |
| 7 | Soren | Soren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 climbed | nsubj |
| 8 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 climbed | compound:prt |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the birds | scared property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | climb up | past | Soren | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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
yeah, they flapped about a lot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 flapped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 flapped | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 flapped | nsubj |
| 4 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 flapped | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lot | det |
| 7 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flapped | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flap | past | they | a lot | about property | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yeah, they screamed loads and went mental
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 screamed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 screamed | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 screamed | nsubj |
| 4 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 screamed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 screamed | conj |
| 8 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 went | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | they | loads | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | past | they not said here | mental property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
nah, they didn't care at all, they just kept on singing in the big beech
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 care | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 care | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 care | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 care | advmod |
| 6 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 care | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kept | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kept | nsubj |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 kept | advmod |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 care | conj |
| 13 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 14 singing | mark |
| 14 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 kept | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 beech | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 beech | det |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 beech | amod |
| 18 | beech | beech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 singing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | past · do-support | they | all | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | they | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | they not said here | the big beech | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in beech=Location |
Option 4
yeah, they screamed loads and flew off in a mad cloud over the garden
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 screamed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 screamed | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 screamed | nsubj |
| 4 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 screamed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 flew | cc |
| 7 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 screamed | conj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 flew | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 cloud | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cloud | det |
| 11 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cloud | amod |
| 12 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | obl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 garden | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 garden | det |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 flew | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | they | loads | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Topic | ||||
| 2 | fly off | past | they not said here | a mad cloud | over the garden | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cloud=Location |
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