Test 9 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Emperor's New Clothes: the Emperor…

Yo, how did the crowd end up cheering the suit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crowd · What happens: do, end up, cheer · To what, where: suit

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crowd	det
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 end	nsubj
7	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 end	compound:prt
9	cheering	cheer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 end	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 suit	det
11	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cheering	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	end up	present	the crowd		tree rules
3	cheer	gerund	the crowd not said here	the suit	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus suit=Experiencer

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 all copied, nobody spoke out

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	3 copied	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 They	det
3	copied	copy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 spoke	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 copied	punct
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 spoke	nsubj
6	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 spoke	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	participle	They						vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	speak out speech: other	past	nobody						vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Everyone copied, no one wanted to look dim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 copied	nsubj
2	copied	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wanted	punct
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wanted	nsubj
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 copied	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 look	mark
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanted	xcomp
9	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	copy	past	Everyone		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	want	past	no one		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	no one not said here	dim property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

They were all scared

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	4 scared	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 scared	advmod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					all, scared property	tree rules

Option 4

Everyone went along, nobody wanted to be dim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	along	along	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wanted	punct
5	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 wanted	nsubj
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 dim	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 dim	cop
9	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go along	past	Everyone	along property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want	past	nobody		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
3	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	nobody not said here	dim 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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