Test 5 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Emperor's New Clothes: the Emperor…

Bro, what did the impostors do with the yarn and the sewing bit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: impostors · What happens: do

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 impostors	det
6	impostors	impostor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 yarn	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 yarn	det
10	yarn	yarn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bit	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bit	det
13	sewing	sewing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bit	compound
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 yarn	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past						Bro vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the impostors					with the yarn and the sewing bit	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

They sewed nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sewed	nsubj
2	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 sewed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	past	They	nothing					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Product

Option 2

They faked it with bare hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 faked	nsubj
2	faked	fake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 faked	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hands	amod
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 faked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past	They	it				with bare hands	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with hand=Instrument

Option 3

They waved empty spools about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 waved	nsubj
2	waved	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spools	amod
4	spools	spool	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 waved	obj
5	about	about	ADV	_	2 waved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	past	They	empty spools				about property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spool=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Pretended with empty hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretended	pretend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 hands	case
3	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hands	amod
4	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pretended	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	participle						with empty hands	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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