Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's tales, The Marble Psyche, part 163: a poor scul…

Yo, the sculptor's mates kept saying he was a dreamer, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mates, he · What happens: keep, say, be · To what, where: dreamer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 952 «Andersen's tales, The Marble Psyche, part 163: a poor sculptor in Rome falls in love with a noble lady and carves her in marble» 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	_	7 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kept	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sculptor	det
4	sculptor	sculptor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mates	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 sculptor	case
6	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kept	nsubj
7	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 kept	xcomp
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dreamer	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dreamer	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 dreamer	det
12	dreamer	dreamer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saying	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kept	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	7 kept	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past	the sculptor's mates		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the sculptor's mates not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	he	a dreamer	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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they said he never really lived

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lived	nsubj
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 lived	advmod
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 lived	advmod
8	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not live	participle	he						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, they said he always drank wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drank	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 drank	advmod
7	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
8	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	drink	past	he	wine				always property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, he was fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Nah, they liked him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 liked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	nsubj
4	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	they	him = he					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme

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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