Test 3 · Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong
A cartoon shows the emperor's crowd laughing at the child who said he had no clothes. What is wrong?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon, crowd, child · What happens: show, laugh, say, have, be · To what, where: crowd, clothes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 of lesson 97 «Honest with yourself: admitting you were wrong» of the religion ethics 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
Sentence 1: A cartoon shows the emperor's crowd laughing at the child who said he had no clothes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 emperor | det |
| 5 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crowd | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 emperor | case |
| 7 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | obj |
| 8 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 crowd | acl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 child | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laughing | obl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 child | acl:relcl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 clothes | det |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | the emperor's crowd | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent crowd=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | the emperor's crowd not said here | at the child | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have | past | cartoon | no clothes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |
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.
Sentence 2: What is wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
The emperor really was wearing clothes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 emperor | det |
| 2 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wearing | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 wearing | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wearing | aux |
| 5 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 wearing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past · progressive | the emperor | clothes | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source |
Option 2
The crowd were right to agree with the emperor
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crowd | det |
| 2 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 agree | mark |
| 6 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 right | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 emperor | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 emperor | det |
| 9 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 agree | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the crowd | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | to-infinitive | the crowd not said here | with the emperor | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with emperor=Co-Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The child said the obvious truth everyone else was too scared to say
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 everyone | det |
| 5 | obvious | obvious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 everyone | amod |
| 6 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 everyone | compound |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 scared | nsubj |
| 8 | else | else | ADV | _ | 7 everyone | advmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 scared | cop |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 scared | advmod |
| 11 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 say | mark |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 scared | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | everyone | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | everyone not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Nothing; the child was being rude and wrong
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 2 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 rude | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rude | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rude | cop |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 rude | cop |
| 7 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Nothing | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wrong | cc |
| 9 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rude | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the child | rude property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the child not said here | tree rules |
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