Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Psyche: a young artist becomes a mon…
Did the monk just give up on faith, or what?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: do, give up · To what, where: monk, faith
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 954 «Andersen's Tales, The Psyche: a young artist becomes a monk, doubts his faith, dies, and centuries later his marble Psyche is dug up» 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 monk | det |
| 3 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 give | advmod |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 give | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 faith | case |
| 8 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 what | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 what | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 give | iobj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the monk | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monk=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | give up | present | faith | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Source |
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
Nah, he cursed God in anger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 cursed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cursed | nsubj |
| 4 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cursed | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 anger | case |
| 7 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cursed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | past | he | God | anger | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, he lost all his faith
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 lost | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 faith | det:predet |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 faith | nmod:poss |
| 7 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | he | his faith | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Eventuality |
Option 3
Yeah, he gave up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 gave | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 gave | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | he | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he begged God for faith
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 begged | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 faith | case |
| 7 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | he | God | for faith | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent god=Recipient for faith=Topic |
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