Test 11 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised…

Is the little poem at the end saying the tale might not be believed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little poem · What happens: be, say, not believe · To what, where: little poem, end, tale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1094 «Perrault's Tales, Donkey-Skin: the princess is recognised and wed to the prince» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 poem	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 poem	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 poem	amod
4	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 end	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 end	det
7	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poem	nmod
8	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 poem	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tale	det
10	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 believed	nsubj:pass
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 believed	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 believed	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 believed	aux:pass
14	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 saying	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 poem	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present		the little poem	at the end	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the little poem not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not believe	might · passive		the tale		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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

Yeah, it says it may be doubted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 doubted	nsubj:pass
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 doubted	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 doubted	aux:pass
8	doubted	doubt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	it						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	doubt	may · passive		it					vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, it says it scarce may be believed by those who hear it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 believed	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	obj
6	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 believed	nsubj:pass
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 believed	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 believed	aux:pass
9	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 those	case
11	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 believed	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 hear	nsubj
13	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 those	acl:relcl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	it	it	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	believe	may · passive	those	scarce	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
3	hear	present		it	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

Nah, it says the whole story is perfectly true and every word of it can be believed by anyone

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 story	amod
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 true	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 true	cop
9	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	10 true	advmod
10	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 says	ccomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 believed	cc
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 word	det
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 believed	nsubj:pass
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 word	nmod
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 believed	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 believed	aux:pass
18	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 true	conj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 anyone	case
20	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 believed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	it			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the whole story		perfectly, true property	tree rules
3	believe	can · passive	anyone	every word of story		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
4	word			story		nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it says it scarce may be believed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 says	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	obj
6	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 believed	nsubj:pass
7	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 believed	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 believed	aux:pass
9	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 says	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	it	it					tree rules
2	believe	may · passive		scarce					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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