Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1:…
what happened when the second officer came, did he get it?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: second officer, officer · What happens: happen, come, get · To what, where: it
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 officer | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 officer | amod |
| 6 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 came | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 get | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | come | past | the second officer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | past · do-support | officer | it | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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
he praised the threads
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 praised | nsubj |
| 2 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 threads | det |
| 4 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 praised | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | past | he | the threads | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
he saw nothing, praised it too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 praised | punct |
| 5 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 praised | obj |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 praised | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | he | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | praise | past | he not said here | it | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
he peered closely, saw nothing, and praised it loudly like the minister had
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 peered | nsubj |
| 2 | peered | peer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 2 peered | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 peered | conj |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 praised | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 praised | cc |
| 9 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 peered | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 praised | obj |
| 11 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 9 praised | advmod |
| 12 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 minister | det |
| 14 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 praised | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peer | past | he | closely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | he not said here | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | praise | past | he not said here | it | loudly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | have | past | the minister | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
he saw nothing and then praised it too, copying the minister's words exactly
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 praised | cc |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 praised | advmod |
| 6 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 praised | obj |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 praised | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 copying | punct |
| 10 | copying | copy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 praised | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 minister | det |
| 12 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 words | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 minister | case |
| 14 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 copying | obj |
| 15 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 10 copying | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | he | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | praise | past | he not said here | it | then | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | copy | gerund | he not said here | the minister's words | exactly property | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 4 | word | the minister | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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