Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Philosopher's Stone, part 149: a wis…

so why's he sad if he's so smart?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 sad	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 sad	advmod
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sad	cop
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sad	nsubj
5	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 smart	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 smart	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 smart	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 smart	advmod
10	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sad	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					sad property	tree rules
2	is	present	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 · ← Mova's choice

He's scared of death

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 scared	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 death	case
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					of death; scared property	tree rules

Option 2

Because he knows he will die

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 knows	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 die	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 die	aux
6	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knows	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	die	future	he						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Death is coming soon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 coming	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 coming	aux
3	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 coming	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · progressive	Death					soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He knows he has to die

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 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 knows	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 die	mark
6	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 has	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	know	present	He	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	present	he	tree rules
3	die	to-infinitive	he not said here	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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