Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's tales, Psyche: the sculptor is scorned, feasts…

Did the girls look like cool glam, or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: girls · What happens: look, glam

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 look	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 girls	det
3	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 look	nsubj
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 cool	case
6	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 glam	obl
7	glam	glam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 look	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 look	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past · do-support	the girls						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	glam	present	the girls not said here					like cool	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, they looked like hot carnations, like full on fire in the candlelight

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 carnations	case
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 carnations	amod
7	carnations	carnation	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 full	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 full	case
10	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 looked	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 fire	case
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 full	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 candlelight	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 candlelight	det
15	candlelight	candlelight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	they					like hot carnations; in the candlelight	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in candlelight=Theme

Option 2

Nope, they looked kinda tired and dull

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 tired	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tired	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tired	cop
5	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	6 tired	advmod
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dull	cc
8	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tired	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					kinda, tired property	tree rules
2	be		they not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they looked like hot carnations

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 carnations	case
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 carnations	amod
7	carnations	carnation	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	they					like hot carnations	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Yeah, they looked like hot carnations, super bright and glowing with life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 looked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 carnations	case
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 carnations	amod
7	carnations	carnation	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bright	punct
9	super	super	ADV	_	10 bright	advmod
10	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 carnations	amod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 glowing	cc
12	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 bright	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 life	case
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 glowing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	they					like hot carnations	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	glow	gerund	they not said here					with life	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with life=Theme

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