Test 12 · ★ · Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, part 150: the Seer's ey…

So the third bro was a poet, not a boring guy?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: third bro · What happens: be · To what, where: poet

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 939 «Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, part 150: the Seer's eyes are clouded, the Hearer's ears burst, and the third brother sets out» 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	_	7 poet	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bro	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 bro	amod
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poet	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 poet	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 poet	det
7	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 guy	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 guy	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 guy	det
11	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 guy	amod
12	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poet	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 poet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the third bro	a poet and a boring guy					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 boring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

Yeah, he was fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fun	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fun	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fun	cop
5	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Yeah, he was cheerful and liked to write poems at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 cheerful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cheerful	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cheerful	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cheerful	cop
5	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 liked	cc
7	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cheerful	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 write	mark
9	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 liked	xcomp
10	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 write	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 night	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 write	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			cheerful property	tree rules
2	like	participle	he not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	write not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	poems	night		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was cheerful and loved to make things sound poetic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 cheerful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cheerful	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cheerful	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cheerful	cop
5	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 loved	cc
7	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cheerful	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cheerful	advcl
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 make	obj
11	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	xcomp
12	poetic	poetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sound	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		cheerful property	tree rules
2	love	participle	he not said here			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
3	make	to-infinitive	he not said here	things		tree rules
4	sound	infinitive	things not said here		poetic property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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