Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1:…
bruh the emperor finally went himself, what did he do?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: emperor · What happens: go, do · To what, where: emperor
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | bruh | bruh | INTJ | _ | 5 went | discourse |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 emperor | det |
| 3 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 do | obj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the emperor | emperor | finally property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | past · do-support | emperor | 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
he told the truth quickly
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 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 truth | det |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 told | obj |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 told | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | he | the truth | quickly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
said it was charming, lied
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 charming | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 charming | aux |
| 4 | charming | charm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 said | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lied | punct |
| 6 | lied | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 charming | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | charm | past · progressive | it | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | lie | participle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
he praised the cloth wildly
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 cloth | det |
| 4 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 praised | obj |
| 5 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 2 praised | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | past | he | the cloth | wildly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme |
Option 4
he refused to look
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 refused | nsubj |
| 2 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 look | mark |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 refused | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | he | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not look | to-infinitive | he not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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