Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young st…
Oi, did the little storks face-plant when they first tried to fly?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi, little storks, storks · What happens: do, plant, try, fly
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 993 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young storks learn to fly and plan revenge» 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 | Oi | oi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oi | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 plant | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 storks | amod |
| 6 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 plant | nsubj |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plant | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 face | punct |
| 9 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 tried | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tried | nsubj |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 tried | advmod |
| 13 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 fly | mark |
| 15 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tried | xcomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Oi | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | plant | little storks | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | try | past | storks = stork | first property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | fly not said to happen | to-infinitive | storks = stork not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, they crashed into a tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 crashed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 crashed | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crashed | nsubj |
| 4 | crashed | crash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crashed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crash | past | they | into a tree result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into tree=Result |
Option 2
Yeah, they fell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 fell | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | they | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they went plump to the ground
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | plump | plump | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | they | the ground | plump property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial_Location |
Option 4
Yeah, they landed in the hedge
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 landed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 landed | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 landed | nsubj |
| 4 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hedge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hedge | det |
| 7 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 landed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | they | the hedge | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in hedge=Destination |
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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