Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1:…

wait, what did the weavers say their cloth could do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, weavers, cloth · What happens: wait, say, do · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 weavers	det
6	weavers	weaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cloth	nmod:poss
9	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 do	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 do	aux
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the weavers	tree rules
3	do	could	weavers's cloth	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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

stay hidden from fools and rivals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 stay	xcomp
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 fools	case
4	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 stay	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rivals	cc
6	rivals	rival	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fools	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here			fools and rivals		hidden property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

hide from the unfit and make wearers truly invisible to all of court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 unfit	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 unfit	det
4	unfit	unfit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 hide	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 make	cc
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 hide	conj
7	wearers	wearer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obj
8	truly	truly	ADV	_	9 invisible	advmod
9	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	xcomp
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 invisible	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 court	case
13	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 all	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here			the unfit			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from unfit=Beneficiary
2	make	present	you not said here	wearers				invisible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wearer=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

hide from the unfit, like invisible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 unfit	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 unfit	det
4	unfit	unfit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 hide	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 invisible	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 invisible	case
7	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 unfit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here			the unfit			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from unfit=Beneficiary

Option 4

hide from anyone unfit for office or in any way disloyal to the crown

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	3 anyone	case
3	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 hide	obl
4	unfit	unfit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 hide	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 office	case
6	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 unfit	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 disloyal	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 disloyal	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 disloyal	det
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 disloyal	compound
11	disloyal	disloyal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 office	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 crown	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 crown	det
14	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here			anyone		to the crown; unfit property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from anyone=Beneficiary

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