Test 5 · Kings, queens and emperors

"Henry VIII was a fat slob his whole life, look at the pictures" What do the pictures miss?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Henry, pictures · What happens: be, look, miss · To what, where: fat slob

This is test 5 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 Henry	punct
2	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 slob	nsubj
3	VIII	VIII	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	2 Henry	flat
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 slob	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 slob	det
6	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 slob	amod
7	slob	slob	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 life	nmod:poss
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 life	amod
10	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 slob	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 look	punct
12	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 slob	parataxis
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 pictures	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pictures	det
15	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 look	obl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 What	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 pictures	acl:relcl
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 miss	aux
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pictures	det
20	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 miss	nsubj
21	miss	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 What	acl:relcl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 slob	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	past	Henry	a fat slob	Henry's whole life nmod	tree rules
2	look in a quote	infinitive			at the pictures	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=Theme
3	miss	present · do-support	the pictures			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

The painters made him look thinner than he really was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 painters	det
2	painters	painter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	xcomp
6	thinner	thin	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 look	xcomp
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	10 was	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 was	nsubj
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 was	advmod
10	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thinner	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the painters	him = he		tree rules
2	look	infinitive	him = he not said here		thin property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	be	past	he			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He was fat because he was ill from birth

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 fat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fat	cop
3	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 ill	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ill	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ill	cop
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fat	advcl
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 birth	case
9	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					fat property	tree rules
2	is	past	he			birth		ill property	tree rules

Option 3

The pictures are of a different king called Henry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pictures	det
2	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 king	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 king	cop
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 king	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 king	det
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 king	amod
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 king	acl
9	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the pictures					of a different king	tree rules
2	call	participle		a different king not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

As a young king he was tall, strong and good at sport

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADP	_	4 king	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 king	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 king	amod
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tall	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tall	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tall	cop
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 strong	punct
9	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tall	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 good	cc
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tall	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 sport	case
13	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	king	sport	as a young king; tall property	tree rules
2	be		king not said here			tree rules
3	be		king not said here			tree rules

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