Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Psyche: a young artist becomes a mon…

Be honest, was Angelo being rude or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Angelo · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	cop
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rude	csubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 honest	punct
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rude	cop
5	Angelo	Angelo	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 rude	nsubj
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 rude	cop
7	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 nah	cc
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 rude	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 rude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						honest property	tree rules
2	is	past	Angelo					rude property	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, Angelo insulted him terribly in front of all the other monks at the gate

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 insulted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 insulted	punct
3	Angelo	Angelo	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 insulted	nsubj
4	insulted	insult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 insulted	obj
6	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	4 insulted	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 front	case
8	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 insulted	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 monks	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 monks	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 monks	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 monks	amod
13	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 front	nmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 gate	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gate	det
16	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 insulted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	insult	past	Angelo	him = he		front of all other monks		at the gate; terribly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he was telling him the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 telling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 telling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 telling	aux
5	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 telling	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 truth	det
8	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 telling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · progressive	he	the truth	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient truth=Topic

Option 3

Nah, he was just being polite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 polite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 polite	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 polite	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 polite	advmod
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 polite	cop
7	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					polite property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he was really quite rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 rude	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rude	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rude	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rude	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	7 rude	advmod
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 rude	advmod
7	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					rude property	tree rules

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