Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes…

Was the lecturer's experiment proper wicked or just boring?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: experiment

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 955 «Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes his dolls alive and learns to be content» 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	5 experiment	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lecturer	det
3	lecturer	lecturer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 experiment	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 lecturer	case
5	experiment	experiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wicked	csubj
6	proper	properly	ADV	_	7 wicked	advmod
7	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 boring	cc
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 boring	advmod
10	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wicked	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the lecturer's experiment					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 dead boring, like maths homework

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	4 boring	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boring	cop
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boring	amod
4	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 homework	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 homework	case
7	maths	math	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 homework	compound
8	homework	homework	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					like maths homework; boring property	tree rules

Option 2

It was rubbish, nothing actually happened

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 rubbish	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rubbish	cop
3	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nothing	punct
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 rubbish	appos
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 happened	advmod
7	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nothing	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	rubbish					tree rules
2	happen	past						actually property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It was a wind-up, all fake stuff

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	4 wind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wind	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 wind	compound
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stuff	punct
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 stuff	det
9	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stuff	amod
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wind	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a wind and all fake stuff					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It was mind-blowing, like proper miracles

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	5 blowing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 blowing	cop
3	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blowing	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
5	blowing	blowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 miracles	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 miracles	case
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 miracles	amod
9	miracles	miracle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 blowing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	mind blowing and proper miracles					tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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