Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Thistle's Experiences, part 20…

Did the thistle figure out what to do next, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thistle · What happens: figure out, do

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 998 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Thistle's Experiences, part 209: a prince leaves a proud princess, and a thistle dreams of glory» 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	4 figure	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thistle	det
3	thistle	thistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 figure	nsubj
4	figure	figure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 figure	compound:prt
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 figure	ccomp
9	next	next	ADV	_	8 do	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 what	cc
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 figure	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 figure	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	figure out	past · do-support	the thistle						vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	to-infinitive	the thistle not said here					next property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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, it figured it all out and went straight into a pot, mate, dead sorted

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 figured	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 figured	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 figured	nsubj
4	figured	figure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 figured	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 out	advmod
7	out	out	ADV	_	4 figured	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 figured	conj
10	straight	straight	ADV	_	13 pot	advmod
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 pot	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pot	det
13	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mate	punct
15	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pot	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dead	punct
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pot	amod
18	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	figure	past	it	it		out property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	go	past			a pot and mate		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	sort	participle					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, it was still thinking about the wedding and the bees and the Ass, mate, all day

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 thinking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thinking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thinking	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 thinking	advmod
6	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 wedding	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wedding	det
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thinking	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bees	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bees	det
12	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wedding	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Ass	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Ass	det
15	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wedding	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mate	punct
17	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wedding	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thinking	punct
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thinking	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	it				still; day	about the wedding and the bees and the Ass and mate	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about wedding=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it was still thinking, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 thinking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thinking	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thinking	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 thinking	advmod
6	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thinking	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	it				still	mate vocative	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, it had a plan, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plan	det
6	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plan	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	it	a plan					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Patient

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