Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Psyche: a young artist becomes a mon…

Why was everyone so hyped about the marble?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: everyone · What happens: be, hype · To what, where: everyone

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 everyone	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 everyone	cop
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 hyped	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 hyped	advmod
5	hyped	hype	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 marble	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 marble	det
8	marble	marble	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hyped	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hyped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		everyone					tree rules
2	hype	past	everyone					about the marble	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 · ← Mova's choice

It was costly and very old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 costly	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 costly	cop
3	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 old	cc
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 costly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					costly property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was beautiful and perfect

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beautiful	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beautiful	cop
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 perfect	cc
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beautiful	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					beautiful property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 3

It was beautiful, perfect in every line, and the finest work of an ancient master

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 beautiful	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 beautiful	cop
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 perfect	punct
5	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beautiful	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 line	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 line	det
8	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 perfect	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 work	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 work	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 work	det
12	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 work	amod
13	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beautiful	parataxis
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 master	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 master	det
16	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 master	amod
17	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 work	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	It		beautiful property	tree rules
2	be			every line		tree rules
3	work		a ancient master			nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

Because the monks had worshipped it as a holy saint for centuries in the chapel

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 worshipped	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monks	det
3	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worshipped	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 worshipped	aux
5	worshipped	worshipp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 worshipped	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	10 saint	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 saint	det
9	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 saint	amod
10	saint	saint	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worshipped	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 centuries	case
12	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worshipped	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 chapel	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chapel	det
15	chapel	chapel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worshipped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	worshipp	past · perfect · passive		the monks		the chapel	century	as a holy saint	tree rules

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