Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Storks, part 204: the young st…

Mate, what does the dad stork do to make the little ones laugh?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, little ones · What happens: do, make, laugh · To what, where: dad stork

This is test 8 · ★ 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	10 make	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 does	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 make	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stork	det
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stork	compound
7	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 does	obj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 make	aux
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ones	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ones	amod
13	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 laugh	nsubj
14	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 make	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	present		the dad stork	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stork=Eventuality
2	make	present · do-support	Mate		tree rules
3	laugh	present	the little ones		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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

Shakes his head like a dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shakes	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shakes	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 dog	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Shakes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	present		his head				like a dog	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Stands on one leg and bows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stands	stand	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 leg	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 leg	nummod
4	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stands	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 bows	cc
6	bows	bow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Stands	conj

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

Option 3

Clatters his beak like a rattle and bows low

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clatters	clatter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 bows	nsubj
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 beak	nmod:poss
3	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Clatters	appos
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 rattle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rattle	det
6	rattle	rattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Clatters	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bows	cc
8	bows	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bows	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	present	Clatters like a rattle					low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Clatters his beak like a rattle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clatters	clatter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 beak	nmod:poss
3	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Clatters	appos
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 rattle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rattle	det
6	rattle	rattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Clatters	nmod

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

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