Test 9 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes…
Ngl, did the puppet man end up loving being a director?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, puppet man · What happens: do, end up, love, be · To what, where: director
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Ngl | Ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ngl | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | puppet | puppet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 man | compound |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | nsubj |
| 7 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | ccomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 end | compound:prt |
| 9 | loving | love | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 end | xcomp |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 director | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 director | det |
| 12 | director | director | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 loving | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Ngl | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | end up | present | the puppet man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | love | gerund | the puppet man not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | gerund | a director | 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, he was off to be a prince
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 off | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 off | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 off | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 off | cop |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 prince | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 prince | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 off | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | to-infinitive | a prince | tree rules |
Option 2
Yeah, he was buzzing and proud all day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 buzzing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 buzzing | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 buzzing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 buzzing | aux |
| 5 | buzzing | buzz | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 proud | cc |
| 7 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 buzzing | conj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 buzzing | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buzz | past · progressive | he | day | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he was miserable as anything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 miserable | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 miserable | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 miserable | cop |
| 5 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 anything | case |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 miserable | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | as anything; miserable property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he was chill and got loads of sleep
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 chill | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 chill | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 chill | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chill | cop |
| 5 | chill | chill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 got | cc |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 chill | conj |
| 8 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 got | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sleep | case |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loads | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | chill property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past | he not said here | loads of sleep | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer load=Stimulus |
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