Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1:…

and the weavers were working at the looms, right? what were they actually doing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: weavers · What happens: work, do

This is test 5 · ★ 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 working	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 weavers	det
3	weavers	weaver	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 working	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 working	aux
5	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 looms	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 looms	det
8	looms	loom	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 working	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 doing	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	16 doing	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 doing	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 doing	obj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 doing	aux
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 doing	nsubj
15	actually	actually	ADV	_	16 doing	advmod
16	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 working	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 working	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past · progressive	the weavers					at the looms	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at loom=Theme
2	do	past · progressive	weavers = weaver					actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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

working hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 working	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	gerund						hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

weaving cloth in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	weaving	weave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 weaving	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 dark	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dark	det
5	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 weaving	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weave	gerund		cloth		the dark			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nothing at all, just faking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 faking	punct
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 faking	advmod
6	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 nothing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	gerund							vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

just weaving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 weaving	advmod
2	weaving	weave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weave	gerund							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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