Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1:…
and the people in the city, were they all in on it?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: be · To what, where: people, city
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | _ | 9 they | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 they | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 people | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 city | punct |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 they | cop |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 they | det |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 they | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 they | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the people in the city | people | city | tree rules |
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
yes, every one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
mostly, though a few doubted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 5 few | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 mostly | punct |
| 3 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 few | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 few | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | doubted | doubt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 few | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doubt | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
no, they just went along
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | along | along | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go along | past | they | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
no, they just went along, cheering loudly for the Emperor's clothes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 went | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | along | along | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cheering | punct |
| 8 | cheering | cheer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 went | advcl |
| 9 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 8 cheering | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 clothes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Emperor | det |
| 12 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Emperor | case |
| 14 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 cheering | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go along | past | they | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cheer | gerund | they not said here | for the Emperor's clothes; loudly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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