Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives…

yo, so the emperor was basically dead and then just says good morning?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: emperor · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 914 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Nightingale: the emperor lives, and the nightingale makes a promise» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	8 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	8 dead	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 emperor	det
5	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dead	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
7	basically	basically	ADV	_	8 dead	advmod
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 says	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 says	advmod
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 says	advmod
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	conj
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 morning	amod
14	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	obl:unmarked
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 dead	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the emperor					basically, dead property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the emperor not said here				then; morning		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

Nah, he just sits there sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sits	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sits	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sits	advmod
5	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sits	advmod
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sits	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	he			there		sad property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the servants walk in and he's chillin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 walk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 walk	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servants	det
4	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walk	nsubj
5	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 walk	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 chillin	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chillin	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 chillin	cop
10	chillin	chillin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk in	present	the servants						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	he	chillin					tree rules

Option 3

Nah, he stays dead the whole time, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stays	nsubj
4	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stays	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stays	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stays	punct
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 stays	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	he				time	dead property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, he's still dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dead	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 dead	advmod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he				still	dead property	tree rules

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