Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Suit: a child sa…

the old minister, was he sus or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old minister · What happens: be · To what, where: sus

This is test 4 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 minister	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 minister	amod
3	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sus	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 minister	punct
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sus	cop
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sus	nsubj
7	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 nah	cc
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 sus	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the old minister	sus					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

He was actually honest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 honest	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 honest	cop
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 honest	advmod
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					actually, honest property	tree rules

Option 2

He praised it, not sincerely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 praised	nsubj
2	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 praised	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sincerely	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 sincerely	advmod
6	sincerely	sincerely	ADV	_	2 praised	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	past	He	it				sincerely property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

He was honest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 honest	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 honest	cop
3	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					honest property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He praised it while lying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 praised	nsubj
2	praised	praise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 praised	obj
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 lying	mark
5	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 praised	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	praise	past	He	it					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	lie	gerund	He not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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