Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, part 29: a blind…
Is the collar a legit boaster, or just cringe?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: collar
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 302 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, part 29: a blind mother bargains with Death for her child, then a boastful collar starts to court a garter» 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 collar | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 collar | det |
| 3 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boaster | csubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 boaster | det |
| 5 | legit | legit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boaster | amod |
| 6 | boaster | boaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cringe | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 cringe | cc |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 cringe | advmod |
| 10 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boaster | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 boaster | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the collar | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Totally cringe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Totally | totally | ADV | _ | 2 cringe | advmod |
| 2 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Totally cringe, he brags about loves he never had
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Totally | totally | ADV | _ | 2 cringe | advmod |
| 2 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brags | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cringe | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brags | nsubj |
| 5 | brags | brag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 loves | case |
| 7 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 brags | ccomp |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 had | advmod |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 loves | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brag speech: other | present | he | cringe | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | love | present | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | not have | past | he | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Pretty cringe, he flirts with everyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cringe | amod |
| 2 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flirts | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cringe | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flirts | nsubj |
| 5 | flirts | flirt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 everyone | case |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 flirts | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flirt speech: other | present | Pretty cringe | with everyone | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with everyone=Co-Agent |
Option 4
Kinda legit, honestly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kinda | kinda | ADV | _ | 2 legit | advmod |
| 2 | legit | legit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 legit | punct |
| 4 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 2 legit | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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