Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Philosopher's Stone, part 149: a wis…

wait, is Solomon smarter than him?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Solomon · What happens: wait, be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 938 «Andersen's Tales, The Philosopher's Stone, part 149: a wise man in a crystal castle fears death and teaches his children about the philosopher's stone» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 smarter	punct
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 smarter	cop
4	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 smarter	nsubj
5	smarter	smart	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 wait	parataxis
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smarter	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	Solomon					than him = he; smart 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

Solomon knew animal speech only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 speech	compound
4	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 knew	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	2 knew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	Solomon	animal speech					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, Solomon was wiser

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 wiser	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wiser	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wiser	cop
5	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 3

Nah, Solomon wins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wins	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wins	nsubj
4	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	Solomon						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, the dude was way smarter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 way	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dude	det
4	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	smarter	smart	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 way	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the dude	way					tree rules

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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