Test 12 · ★ · Andersen's tales, The Marble Psyche, part 163: a poor scul…

Cringe, what did the old master do when he saw the sculptor?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cringe · What happens: do, see · To what, where: old master, sculptor

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Cringe	cringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Cringe	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 master	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 master	amod
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 saw	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sculptor	det
13	sculptor	sculptor	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Cringe	the old master	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Eventuality
2	do	present	Cringe		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	Cringe	the sculptor	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sculptor=Stimulus

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

Sent him away at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sent	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Sent	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	past		him = he				away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Greeted him very nicely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Greeted	obj
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 nicely	advmod
4	nicely	nicely	ADV	_	1 Greeted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	past			him = he			nicely property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Ignored him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ignored	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past		him = he					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Shouted at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Shouted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	participle						at him = he	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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