Test 4 · ★ · The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets…

Be honest, what's Hans's face like, all proper chirpy?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: all · What happens: be · To what, where: face

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 2036 «The Happy Prince, The Devoted Friend, part 6: Hans greets the Miller in spring» 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	8 face	csubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 honest	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 face	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 face	cop
6	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 face	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Hans	case
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	like	like	INTJ	_	8 face	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 chirpy	punct
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 chirpy	nsubj
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 chirpy	amod
13	chirpy	chirpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 face	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 face	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive			honest property	tree rules
2	is a	present		Hans's face		tree rules
3	be		all			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

Serious, sharp and rather grim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sharp	punct
3	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Serious	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grim	cc
5	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 grim	advmod
6	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Serious	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Stern, angular and always frowning at the children

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stern	stern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 frowning	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 angular	punct
3	angular	angular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stern	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 frowning	cc
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 frowning	advmod
6	frowning	frown	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 children	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 frowning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frown	gerund						at the children; always property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Funny, round and good-humoured

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 humoured	parataxis
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 round	punct
3	round	round	ADV	_	1 Funny	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 good	cc
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Funny	conj
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct
7	humoured	humour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	humour	participle							tree rules

Option 4

Pale and thin, with sunken eyes and a worried brow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pale	pale	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 thin	cc
3	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pale	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eyes	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
6	sunken	sunken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eyes	amod
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pale	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brow	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 brow	det
10	worried	worried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 brow	amod
11	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pale	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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