Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's tales, Psyche: the sculptor is scorned, feasts…

Who were the girls, like were they his crushes?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girls · What happens: be · To what, where: girls

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 girls	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 girls	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girls	det
4	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crushes	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	10 crushes	case
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 crushes	cop
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 crushes	nsubj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 crushes	nmod:poss
10	crushes	crush	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 girls	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 girls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the girls and his crushes					tree rules
2	is	past	girls = girl					like his crushes	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

Yeah, crushes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 crushes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	crushes	crush	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They were just models, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 models	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 models	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 models	advmod
4	models	model	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bro	punct
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 models	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	They	models and bro					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, they were his sisters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 sisters	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sisters	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sisters	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sisters	nmod:poss
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	his sisters					tree rules

Option 4

Nah, just friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 friends	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 friends	advmod
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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