Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes…

Wait, the puppets turned into actors, what were they like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, puppets · What happens: wait, turn · To what, where: actors

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 puppets	det
4	puppets	puppet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turned	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 actors	case
7	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 actors	nmod
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 like	cop
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 like	nsubj
12	like	like	INTJ	_	9 what	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn	past	the puppets			actors			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into actor=Trajectory

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

Calm, sorted and dead chill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 chill	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sorted	punct
3	sorted	sort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Calm	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dead	cc
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Calm	conj
6	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sort	participle							vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Happy to do whatever the bloke said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 do	mark
3	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Happy	xcomp
4	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 said	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bloke	det
6	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 do	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	to-infinitive							tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the bloke	whatever					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Proper divas, all demanding and well up themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 divas	amod
2	divas	diva	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 demanding	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 demanding	nsubj
5	demanding	demand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 divas	acl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 well	cc
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 demanding	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	9 themselves	case
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 well	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	gerund	all	Proper divas not said here					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme diva=Precondition

Option 4

Shy, quiet and dead polite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 quiet	punct
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Shy	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dead	cc
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Shy	conj
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Shy	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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