Test 6 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow
the mayor said she drank herself to death, wasn't he dead harsh?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mayor, he · What happens: say, drink, not be · To what, where: mayor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 845 «Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow» 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 | 2 mayor | det |
| 2 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 drank | nsubj |
| 5 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 drank | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 drank | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 harsh | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 harsh | cop |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 harsh | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 harsh | nsubj |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 harsh | amod |
| 14 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the mayor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | drink | past | mayor | mayor | to death | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 3 | not is | past | he | harsh 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
Nah, he was actually quite nice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 nice | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 nice | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 nice | cop |
| 5 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 7 nice | advmod |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 nice | advmod |
| 7 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | actually, nice property | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, he was very mean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 mean | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 mean | advmod |
| 6 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | mean property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, super cruel and totally unfair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 cruel | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cruel | punct |
| 3 | super | super | ADV | _ | 4 cruel | advmod |
| 4 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 unfair | cc |
| 6 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 7 unfair | advmod |
| 7 | unfair | unfair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cruel | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, very harsh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 harsh | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 harsh | advmod |
| 4 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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