Exam question 1 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Emperor's New Clothes: the Emperor…
Which persons in the tale, having been deceived by the impostors, subsequently professed admiration for a cloth that they could not perceive?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: impostors · What happens: deceive, profess, not perceive · To what, where: professed admiration
This is exam question 1 of lesson 1683 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Emperor's New Clothes: the Emperor parades in nothing» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 persons | det |
| 2 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 tale | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tale | det |
| 5 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 persons | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 deceived | punct |
| 7 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 deceived | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 deceived | aux:pass |
| 9 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 persons | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 impostors | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 impostors | det |
| 12 | impostors | impostor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 deceived | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 admiration | punct |
| 14 | subsequently | subsequently | ADV | _ | 15 professed | advmod |
| 15 | professed | profess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 admiration | amod |
| 16 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deceived | obl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 cloth | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cloth | det |
| 19 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 admiration | nmod |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 perceive | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 perceive | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 perceive | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 perceive | advmod |
| 24 | perceive | perceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 admiration | acl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 persons | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deceive | gerund · perfect · passive | the impostors | professed admiration for a cloth | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | profess | participle | subsequently property | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not perceive | could | impostors = impostor | professed admiration for a cloth not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer admiration=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
The Emperor and all his high officials
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 officials | cc |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 officials | det:predet |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 officials | nmod:poss |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 officials | amod |
| 7 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Emperor | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Emperor and his entire household
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 household | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 household | nmod:poss |
| 5 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 household | amod |
| 6 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Emperor | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The Emperor, his ministers and the entire Court
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ministers | punct |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ministers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Emperor | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Court | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Court | det |
| 8 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Court | amod |
| 9 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Emperor | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Emperor, his ministers, the entire Court and even the crowd in the streets
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ministers | punct |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ministers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Emperor | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Court | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Court | det |
| 8 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Court | amod |
| 9 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Emperor | appos |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 crowd | cc |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 crowd | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crowd | det |
| 13 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Court | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 streets | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 streets | det |
| 16 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 crowd | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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