Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Suit: a child sa…

did the swindlers actually sew anything, lowkey?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: swindlers · What happens: sew · To what, where: anything

This is test 11 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sew	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 swindlers	det
3	swindlers	swindler	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sew	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 sew	advmod
5	sew	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 sew	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lowkey	punct
8	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 anything	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sew	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	past · do-support	the swindlers	anything				actually property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Product

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 · ✓ the right answer

No, they sewed nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 sewed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sewed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sewed	nsubj
4	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 sewed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	past	they	nothing					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

No, they only pretended

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 pretended	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pretended	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 pretended	advmod
5	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	they						tree rules

Option 3

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yes, a little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 little	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 little	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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