Exam question 3 · Lang's Fairy Book, The Emperor's New Clothes: the Emperor…

What remark did the little child make that caused the populace to acknowledge the truth of the matter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little child, that, populace · What happens: be, make, cause, acknowledge · To what, where: populace, truth

This is exam question 3 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 make	obj
2	remark	remark	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 child	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 child	amod
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 caused	nsubj
9	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 make	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 populace	det
11	populace	populace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caused	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 acknowledge	mark
13	acknowledge	acknowledge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 caused	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 truth	det
15	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 acknowledge	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 matter	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 matter	det
18	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 truth	nmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present			tree rules
2	make	past · do-support	the little child		tree rules
3	cause	past	that	the populace	tree rules
4	acknowledge	to-infinitive	the populace not said here	the truth of the matter	vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent truth=Topic

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

'Nothing on!'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Nothing	punct
2	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 Nothing	compound:prt
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Nothing	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Nothing	punct

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

"But he has nothing on!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 has	cc
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 has	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	4 has	compound:prt
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have on in a quote	present	he	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient

Option 3

'He is bare!'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 bare	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bare	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bare	cop
4	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 bare	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 bare	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					bare property	tree rules

Option 4

'Look, the Emperor is naked!'

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 naked	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Emperor	det
5	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 naked	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 naked	cop
7	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Look	conj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	present	the Emperor					naked property	tree rules

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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