Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy: a kind poet lets…

Is Cupid sneaky about following students?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, follow · To what, where: students

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 308 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Naughty Boy: a kind poet lets in a wet boy who shoots him with an arrow» 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 sneaky	cop
2	Cupid	cupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sneaky	amod
3	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 following	mark
5	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sneaky	advcl
6	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 following	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sneaky	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						sneaky property	tree rules
2	follow	gerund		students					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent student=Theme

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

Yeah, he's wearing a green hat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 wearing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wearing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wearing	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wearing	aux
5	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hat	det
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hat	amod
8	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wearing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present · progressive	he	a green hat					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hat=Theme

Option 2

Super sneaky, he sneaks around in a black coat and never gets caught, fam

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Super	super	ADV	_	2 sneaky	advmod
2	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sneaks	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sneaks	nsubj
5	sneaks	sneak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sneaky	parataxis
6	around	around	ADV	_	5 sneaks	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 coat	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 coat	det
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 coat	amod
10	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sneaks	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 caught	cc
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 caught	advmod
13	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 caught	aux:pass
14	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sneaky	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fam	punct
16	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sneaky	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneak around	present	he			a black coat		around property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in coat=Trajectory
2	not catch	present · passive							vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Dead sneaky, he's in a black coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sneaky	amod
2	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 coat	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sneaky	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 coat	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 coat	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 coat	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 coat	det
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 coat	amod
9	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he			a sneaky black coat			tree rules

Option 4

Dead sneaky, he hides in a long black coat and walks behind them real quiet, bro

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sneaky	amod
2	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hides	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sneaky	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hides	nsubj
5	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 coat	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 coat	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 coat	amod
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 coat	amod
10	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hides	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 walks	cc
12	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hides	conj
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 walks	obl
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 quiet	amod
16	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bro	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bro	punct
18	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walks	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	he			a long black coat			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in coat=Location
2	walk	present	he not said here					behind them = they	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Trajectory

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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