Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Poultry Meg's Family, part 1: Marie and…

Did Soren's eye get wrecked by the bird?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: wreck · To what, where: eye

This is test 9 · ★ 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wrecked	aux
2	Soren	Soren	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 eye	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Soren	case
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrecked	nsubj:pass
5	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wrecked	aux:pass
6	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 bird	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wrecked	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wrecked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wreck	past · passive · do-support	the bird	Soren's eye					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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

nah, it stayed swollen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	it					swollen property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, it was wrecked for weeks and he could not see out of it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 wrecked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wrecked	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wrecked	aux:pass
5	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 weeks	case
7	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wrecked	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 see	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 see	advmod
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wrecked	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	15 it	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wreck	past · passive		it			week		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	not see out	could	he	it					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

nah, it was fine in the end, though he had to wear a patch for a while

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fine	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 wear	mark
14	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 patch	det
16	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wear	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 while	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 while	det
19	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past			in the end	fine property	tree rules
2	have	past	he				tree rules
3	wear	to-infinitive	he not said here	a patch	while		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent patch=Source

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, it was fine in the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fine	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past					in the end	fine property	tree rules

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