Exam question 1 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1:…
Which character trait does the Emperor's inordinate devotion to apparel most evidently demonstrate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: character trait, Emperor · What happens: do, apparel, demonstrate, devote · To what, where: inordinate devotion
This is exam question 1 of lesson 274 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1: a vain Emperor is fooled by two cheating weavers» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 character | det |
| 2 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trait | compound |
| 3 | trait | trait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Emperor | det |
| 6 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 devotion | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Emperor | case |
| 8 | inordinate | inordinate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 devotion | amod |
| 9 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 apparel | mark |
| 11 | apparel | apparel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 devotion | acl |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 evidently | advmod |
| 13 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 14 demonstrate | advmod |
| 14 | demonstrate | demonstrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 apparel | advcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | character trait | the Emperor's inordinate devotion | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devotion=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | apparel | to-infinitive | character trait not said here | the Emperor's inordinate devotion not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | demonstrate | infinitive | character trait not said here | evidently property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | devote | the Emperor | nom devotion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
vanity
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
shyness
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shyness | shyness | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
greed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
envy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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