Test 2 · ★ · Andersen's tales, The Marble Psyche, part 163: a poor scul…

Bro, why did he keep smashing his clay stuff?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: keep, smash · To what, where: clay stuff

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keep	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 keep	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 keep	nsubj
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	smashing	smash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 keep	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 stuff	nmod:poss
9	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stuff	compound
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smashing	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	he					Bro vocative	tree rules
2	smash	gerund	he not said here	his clay stuff					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Theme

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 thought the clay was ugly

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 clay	det
4	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ugly	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ugly	cop
6	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the clay					ugly property	tree rules

Option 2

He hated clay

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 hated	nsubj
2	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hated	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	He	clay					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clay=Stimulus

Option 3

He wanted to make it bigger

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 make	mark
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	obj
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	it				big property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He never felt his work was finished

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 felt	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 felt	advmod
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 work	nmod:poss
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finished	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 finished	aux:pass
7	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 felt	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not feel	past	He		vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	finish	past · passive		his work	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
3	work		his = he		nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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