Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Suit: a child sa…

why didn't anyone speak up, like for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: anyone · What happens: not speak up

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 824 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Suit: a child says the truth» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 speak	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 speak	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 speak	advmod
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 speak	nsubj
5	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 speak	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 real	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 real	case
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 real	case
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 speak	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 speak	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak up speech: other	past · do-support	anyone						vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody wanted to look dumb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	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 wanted	xcomp
5	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Nobody						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here					dumb property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Nobody wanted to be fired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 fired	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 fired	aux:pass
5	fired	fire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Nobody						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fire not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	Nobody not said here						vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»

Option 3

Nobody wished to seem foolish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 seem	mark
4	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	xcomp
5	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 seem	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	Nobody						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	seem not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here					foolish property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nobody wanted to look dumb in front of the emperor and the whole court

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	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 wanted	xcomp
5	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 front	case
7	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 emperor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 emperor	det
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 front	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 court	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 court	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 court	amod
14	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 emperor	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Nobody						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nobody not said here					in front of the emperor and the whole court; dumb property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in front=Theme

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