Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1:…

how did the rogues pretend to finish the suit at night?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: rogues · What happens: do, pretend, finish · To what, where: suit

This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rogues	det
4	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pretend	nsubj
5	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 finish	mark
7	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 pretend	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 suit	det
9	suit	suit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finish	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finish	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	pretend	present	the rogues			tree rules
3	finish	to-infinitive	the rogues not said here	the suit	night	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality suit=Eventuality

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

cut air, sew with no thread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cut	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sew	punct
4	sew	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 cut	advcl
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 thread	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 thread	det
7	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	imperative	you not said here	air					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset air=Product
2	sew	present	you not said here					with no thread	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with thread=Co-Patient

Option 2

cut air and sewed with no thread, working secretly through every night until dawn

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cut	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sewed	cc
4	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 cut	conj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 thread	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 thread	det
7	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sewed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 working	punct
9	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 cut	advcl
10	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	9 working	advmod
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 night	case
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 working	obl
14	until	until	ADP	_	15 dawn	case
15	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 working	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cut	imperative	you not said here	air			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset air=Product
2	sew	past	you not said here			with no thread	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with thread=Co-Patient
3	work	gerund	you not said here		dawn; night	secretly property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

stitched in the dark hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stitched	stitch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 hall	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hall	det
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hall	amod
5	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stitched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stitch	participle				the dark hall			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

measured the bolts of silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	measured	measure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bolts	det
3	bolts	bolt	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 measured	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 silk	case
5	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bolts	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	measure	past		the bolts of silk					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme bolt=Value
2	bolt		silk						nom bolt «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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