Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part 6: greedy Fanfarona…

The Prime Minister said they were, like, admiring each other, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Prime Minister, they · What happens: say, admire · To what, where: each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1509 «Fairy Tales, Princess Mayblossom, part 6: greedy Fanfaronade eats all the food and the Princess vanishes» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Minister	det
2	Prime	Prime	PROPN	_	3 Minister	compound
3	Minister	Minister	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 admiring	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 admiring	aux
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 admiring	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	10 admiring	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 admiring	punct
10	admiring	admire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
11	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	10 admiring	obj
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 each	fixed
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 yeah	punct
14	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 admiring	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Prime Minister						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	admire	past · progressive	they	each					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus

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

Nah, they were quarrelling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 quarrelling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 quarrelling	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 quarrelling	cop
5	quarrelling	quarrelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	quarrelling					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, admiring each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 admiring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	admiring	admire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 admiring	obj
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	admire	gerund		each					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus

Option 3

Yes, they hated it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 hated	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	nsubj
4	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	they	it					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

Nope, not at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 all	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 all	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root

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

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