Test 1 · Kings, queens and emperors

"napoleon was a short angry midget lol everyone knows" What's the best reply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: napoleon, everyone · What happens: be, know · To what, where: short angry midget, best reply · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 19 «Kings, queens and emperors» of the myths 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 napoleon	punct
2	napoleon	napoleon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 midget	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 midget	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 midget	det
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 midget	amod
6	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 midget	amod
7	midget	midget	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	10 knows	discourse
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 knows	nsubj
10	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 midget	acl:relcl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 reply	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 reply	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 reply	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 reply	det
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 reply	amod
16	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knows	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 midget	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	napoleon	a short angry midget	tree rules
2	know in a quote	present	everyone	a short angry midget not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer midget=Stimulus
3	be speech: assert	present		the best reply	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

You're right, he was the shortest grown man in the whole of France

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 man	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 man	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
8	shortest	short	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 man	amod
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 whole	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 whole	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 France	case
15	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 whole	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	You			right property	tree rules
2	grow	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past	he	the shortest grown man	the whole of France		tree rules

Option 2

Nobody knows, so you can say whatever you like

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 say	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knows	ccomp
8	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 like	obj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 like	nsubj
10	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	know	present	Nobody		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	can	you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like	present	you	whatever	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whatever=Theme

Option 3

He was short only when he sat on a horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 short	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 short	cop
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 sat	advmod
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 sat	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sat	nsubj
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 short	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 horse	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 horse	det
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					short property	tree rules
2	sit	past	he					on a horse	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horse=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He was about average height; British cartoons made him look tiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 height	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 height	cop
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 average	advmod
4	average	average	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 height	amod
5	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
7	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cartoons	amod
8	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 made	nsubj
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 height	acl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	obj
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 made	xcomp
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	average height		tree rules
2	make	past	British cartoons	him = he		tree rules
3	look	infinitive	him = he not said here		tiny property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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