Test 4 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Emperor's New Clothes: the Emperor…

Innit wild that a little kid said it first, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little kid · What happens: say · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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. 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wild	compound
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 said	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 kid	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kid	amod
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wild	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	obj
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 wild	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wild	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	2 wild	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wild	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	a little kid	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=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

Yeah, kids just say the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 truth	det
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids	the truth					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent truth=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, kids just say what they see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 see	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
8	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	present	kids = kid						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

Option 3

Yeah, kids just say what they see, cos they don't care what the grown-ups think

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 see	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 see	nsubj
8	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 care	punct
10	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	14 care	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 care	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 care	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 care	advmod
14	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	advcl
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 think	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ups	det
17	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 ups	amod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 grown	punct
19	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 think	nsubj
20	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 care	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	kids	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	present	kids = kid	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	not care	present · do-support	kids = kid	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	grow	participle		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	think speech: other	present	the grown ups	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

Option 4

Nah, the kid was just being rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 rude	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kid	det
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rude	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rude	cop
6	just	just	ADV	_	8 rude	advmod
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 rude	cop
8	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the kid					rude property	tree rules

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