Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, a…

So wait, the Emperor was dead, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Emperor · What happens: wait, be

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1744 «Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the clockwork bird breaks, and the real Nightingale saves the Emperor» 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 wait	advmod
2	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Emperor	det
5	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dead	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dead	cop
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wait	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dead	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 wait	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the Emperor					dead property	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

Everyone said he was dead, but he was not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dead	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 was	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 was	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 was	nsubj
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 was	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Everyone		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he	dead property	tree rules
3	not be	past	he		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Court thought him dead, but he was not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Court	det
2	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	obj
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 was	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 was	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 was	nsubj
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	parataxis
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 was	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Court	him = he				dead property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	not be	past	Court						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The Court thought him dead, but he was not, and the whole palace wept for him for a full week

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Court	det
2	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	obj
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wept	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 wept	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wept	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wept	cop
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 wept	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wept	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wept	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 palace	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 palace	amod
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wept	nsubj
16	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	conj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wept	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 week	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 week	det
21	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 week	amod
22	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Court	him = he				dead property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	not is	past	Court				week	for him = he; weep property	tree rules

Option 4

The Court thought him dead, but he was not, and the bandmaster had said so all along

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Court	det
2	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	obj
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thought	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	aux:pass
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 said	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bandmaster	det
14	bandmaster	bandmaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	aux
16	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thought	conj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 all	advmod
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 along	advmod
19	along	along	ADV	_	16 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the Court	him = he				dead property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
2	not say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		Court				along property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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