Test 8 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Emperor's New Clothes: the Emperor…
What was the Emperor's big fear, like, the worst thing ever?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: big fear
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 fear | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fear | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Emperor | det |
| 4 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fear | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Emperor | case |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fear | amod |
| 7 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thing | punct |
| 9 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 13 thing | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 12 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 thing | amod |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fear | conj |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 thing | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 fear | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Emperor's big fear and the worst thing | tree rules |
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
Being seen as dim by everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 seen | aux:pass |
| 2 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 dim | case |
| 4 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seen | obl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 everyone | case |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 seen | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund · passive | everyone | as dim | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as dim=Attribute |
Option 2
Being poor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 poor | cop |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | poor property | tree rules |
Option 3
Losing his gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 gold | nmod:poss |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Losing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund | his gold | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Looking dumb and not fit to rule
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Looking | xcomp |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fit | cc |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fit | advmod |
| 5 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 dumb | conj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 rule | mark |
| 7 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fit | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | dumb property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not fit | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | rule | to-infinitive | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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