Test 7 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Emperor's New Clothes: the Emperor…
Be honest, did the minister go full cringe or what?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: minister · What happens: be, go · To what, where: full cringe
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 honest | cop |
| 2 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 go | csubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 honest | punct |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 minister | det |
| 6 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | nsubj |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cringe | amod |
| 9 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 what | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 cringe | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | honest property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | past · do-support | the minister | full cringe | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cringe=Theme |
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
Yeah, he faked it to fit in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 faked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 faked | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 faked | nsubj |
| 4 | faked | fake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 faked | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fit | mark |
| 7 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 faked | advcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 fit | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fake | past | he | it | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fit in | to-infinitive | he not said here | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Nah, he just kept it real
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 kept | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 kept | advmod |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kept | obj |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kept | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | he | it | real property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he lied to look cool
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 lied | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lied | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lied | nsubj |
| 4 | lied | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lied | xcomp |
| 7 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 look | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | he not said here | cool property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4
Yeah, he lied to look cool in front of the Emperor and all the other lords
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 lied | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lied | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lied | nsubj |
| 4 | lied | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lied | xcomp |
| 7 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 look | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 front | case |
| 9 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Emperor | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Emperor | det |
| 12 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 front | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lords | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 lords | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lords | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 lords | amod |
| 17 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lied | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | he not said here | in front of the Emperor; cool property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in front=Theme |
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