Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Old Anthony, part 127: Anthony lies awak…
Is it sus that Anthony hates being kissed?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, Anthony · What happens: be, hate, kiss
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 916 «Andersen's Tales, Old Anthony, part 127: Anthony lies awake in his cold booth and remembers his childhood with Molly» 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sus | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sus | nsubj |
| 3 | sus | suspect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 hates | mark |
| 5 | Anthony | Anthony | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hates | nsubj |
| 6 | hates | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sus | advcl |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 kissed | aux:pass |
| 8 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 hates | xcomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sus | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | suspect property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hate | present | Anthony | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | kiss not said to happen | gerund · passive | Anthony not said here | vn marry-36.2 «NP V» |
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
no, he likes it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 likes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 likes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 likes | nsubj |
| 4 | likes | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 likes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present | he | it | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
Option 2
yeah, he did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | he | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he pushed the girls away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 pushed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 pushed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pushed | nsubj |
| 4 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 girls | det |
| 6 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pushed | obj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 pushed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push away | past | he | the girls | away property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme |
Option 4
no, he kissed every girl there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 kissed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 kissed | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kissed | nsubj |
| 4 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 girl | det |
| 6 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kissed | obj |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 kissed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | he | every girl | there | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Co-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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