Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young st…

Mate, what's the mum stork's big plan for revenge, the actual thing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: big plan

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 plan	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 plan	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 plan	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stork	det
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stork	compound
7	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plan	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 stork	case
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plan	amod
10	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 revenge	case
12	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plan	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thing	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 thing	det
15	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 thing	amod
16	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mate and the mum stork's big plan and the actual thing	the mum stork's big plan				for revenge	tree rules

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

Eat the frogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 frogs	det
3	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	the frogs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Fetch babies from the pond

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fetch	fetch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 babies	compound
2	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 pond	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pond	det
5	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 babies	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Drop rocks on the boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rocks	compound
2	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 boys	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boys	det
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rocks	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Catch fish from the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Catch	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Catch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	imperative	you not said here	fish		the river			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fish=Theme from river=Source

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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