Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful colla…

Wat did the garter say when he got too close, bro?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wat · What happens: say, get · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 976 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful collar loses every bride and ends as paper» 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	Wat	Wat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 garter	det
4	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 got	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 close	advmod
10	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 got	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bro	punct
12	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Wat						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get	past	Wat					close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

You're acting like a clerk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 acting	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 acting	aux
3	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 clerk	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 clerk	det
6	clerk	clerk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 acting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	present · progressive	You					like a clerk	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like clerk=Attribute

Option 2

You're acting far too bold for a garter like me

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 acting	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 acting	aux
3	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 bold	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 bold	advmod
6	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 acting	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 garter	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 garter	det
9	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 acting	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 acting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	present · progressive	You					for a garter; like me; bold property	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like i=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

You're acting like a man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 acting	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 acting	aux
3	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 man	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 acting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	present · progressive	You					like a man	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like man=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

You're acting like a man who lies about his boots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 acting	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 acting	aux
3	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 man	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 acting	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lies	nsubj
8	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 man	acl:relcl
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 boots	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 boots	nmod:poss
11	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	present · progressive	You					like a man	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like man=Attribute
2	lie	present	a man					about man's boots	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about boot=Location

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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