Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's tales, Psyche: the sculptor is scorned, feasts…
Wait, why did she call him a madman, mate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, she · What happens: wait, call · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 953 «Andersen's tales, Psyche: the sculptor is scorned, feasts with artists, buries his marble statue and turns to faith» 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 call | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 call | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 call | aux |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 call | nsubj |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 call | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 madman | det |
| 9 | madman | madman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mate | punct |
| 11 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 madman | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | call | past · do-support | she | him = he | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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
Cause he was being super cringe and way too extra about it all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | SCONJ | _ | 6 cringe | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cringe | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cringe | cop |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cringe | cop |
| 5 | super | super | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cringe | amod |
| 6 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 way | cc |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cringe | conj |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 extra | advmod |
| 10 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 it | amod |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 way | nmod |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 it | det |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | super cringe and way about way | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Cause he was being super cringe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | SCONJ | _ | 6 cringe | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cringe | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cringe | cop |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cringe | cop |
| 5 | super | super | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cringe | amod |
| 6 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | super cringe | tree rules |
Option 3
Dunno, it's cringe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dunno | dunno | INTJ | _ | 5 cringe | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dunno | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cringe | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cringe | cop |
| 5 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | cringe | tree rules |
Option 4
Cause he was cringe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | SCONJ | _ | 4 cringe | case |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cringe | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cringe | cop |
| 4 | cringe | cringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | cause cringe | tree rules |
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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