Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Suit: a child sa…
the second guy, was he being real about the cloth?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: second guy · What happens: be
This is test 5 · ★ 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 guy | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 guy | amod |
| 3 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 real | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 guy | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 real | cop |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 real | nsubj |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 real | cop |
| 8 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 cloth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cloth | det |
| 11 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 real | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 real | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the second guy | about the cloth; real property | 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 praised a pattern he admired
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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 pattern | det |
| 4 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 praised | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 admired | nsubj |
| 6 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pattern | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | past | He | a pattern | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Theme | ||||
| 2 | admire | past | he | a pattern not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pattern=Stimulus |
Option 2
He was sincere
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 sincere | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sincere | cop |
| 3 | sincere | sincere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | sincere property | tree rules |
Option 3
He sincerely admired the cloth
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 admired | nsubj |
| 2 | sincerely | sincerely | ADV | _ | 3 admired | advmod |
| 3 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cloth | det |
| 5 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 admired | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admire | past | He | the cloth | sincerely property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloth=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
He faked praising what he couldn't see
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 faked | nsubj |
| 2 | faked | fake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | praising | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 faked | xcomp |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 see | obj |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 see | advmod |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 praising | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fake | past | He | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | praise | gerund | He not said here | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | not see | could | he | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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