Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Psyche: a young artist becomes a mon…

Was the star lowkey the only one who knew the sculptor?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: star, only one · What happens: be, lowkey, know · To what, where: star, only one, sculptor

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 star	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 star	det
3	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lowkey	nsubj
4	lowkey	lowkey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lowkey	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 one	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sculptor	det
11	sculptor	sculptor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knew	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lowkey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the star	tree rules
2	lowkey	past	the star	the only one	tree rules
3	know	past	the only one	the sculptor	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sculptor=Stimulus

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, it knew the sculptor well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sculptor	det
6	sculptor	sculptor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	obj
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 knew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	it	the sculptor				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sculptor=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it knew his whole life story

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 knew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 story	nmod:poss
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 story	amod
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 story	compound
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knew	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	it	his whole life story					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the sculptor was a stranger to the star, though the monks told many tales of him

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 stranger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sculptor	det
4	sculptor	sculptor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stranger	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stranger	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stranger	det
7	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 star	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 star	det
10	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stranger	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 told	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 monks	det
14	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stranger	conj
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 tales	amod
17	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 told	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tales	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the sculptor	a stranger	to the star	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	the monks	many tales of him		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
3	tell		him = he			nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

Yeah, the star had watched the sculptor from his birth until his death in the old city

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 watched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 watched	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 star	det
4	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watched	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 watched	aux
6	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sculptor	det
8	sculptor	sculptor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watched	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 birth	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 birth	nmod:poss
11	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watched	obl
12	until	until	ADP	_	14 death	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 death	nmod:poss
14	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watched	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 city	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 city	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 city	amod
18	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past · perfect	the star	the sculptor		star's birth	until star's death	in the old city	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sculptor=Theme
2	die		star						nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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