Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1:…

and what did they say the clothes felt like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, clothes · What happens: say, feel · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 say	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clothes	det
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	8 felt	nsubj
8	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
9	like	like	ADP	_	8 felt	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	they						tree rules
2	feel	past	the clothes						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

soft as wool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 wool	case
3	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 soft	obl

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

Option 2

thin as a sheet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 sheet	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sheet	det
4	sheet	sheet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 thin	obl

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

Option 3

as light as a cobweb drifting in the palace garden breeze

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	as	as	ADV	_	2 light	advmod
2	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 cobweb	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cobweb	det
5	cobweb	cobweb	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 light	obl
6	drifting	drift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cobweb	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 breeze	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 breeze	det
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 garden	compound
10	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 breeze	compound
11	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drifting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drift	gerund	a cobweb not said here			the garden breeze			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in breeze=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

light as a cobweb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	4 cobweb	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cobweb	det
4	cobweb	cobweb	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 light	nmod

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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