Test 5 · ★ · Indian Tales, The Enchanted Wreath, part 1: a greedy golds…

ngl, was the goldsmith's buffalo real or was he just flexing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: be, flex · To what, where: buffalo

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1153 «Indian Tales, The Enchanted Wreath, part 1: a greedy goldsmith is undone, and a kind stepdaughter is rewarded by doves» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 buffalo	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 buffalo	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 goldsmith	det
5	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buffalo	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 goldsmith	case
7	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 buffalo	amod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 flexing	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 flexing	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 flexing	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 flexing	advmod
13	flexing	flex	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 real	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 buffalo	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ngl	the goldsmith's buffalo					tree rules
2	flex	past · progressive	ngl						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He was telling the truth, lol

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 telling	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 telling	aux
3	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 truth	det
5	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 telling	punct
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 telling	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · progressive	He	the truth					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was lying through his teeth, bro

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 lying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lying	aux
3	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 teeth	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 teeth	nmod:poss
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lying	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 teeth	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	He			his teeth and bro			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through tooth=Location

Option 3

Yeah it was real, he really had a fat buffalo and sold it, bro

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 real	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 real	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 real	cop
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 had	advmod
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 real	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 buffalo	det
10	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 buffalo	amod
11	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sold	cc
13	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sold	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bro	punct
16	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 real	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	it		real property	tree rules
2	have	past	he	a fat buffalo		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Patient
3	sell	past	he not said here	buffalo		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

He was flexing hard, but the buffalo was actually a farm cow from next door, lol

The tree, 16 words

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 flexing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flexing	aux
3	flexing	flex	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 flexing	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cow	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 cow	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 buffalo	det
8	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cow	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cow	cop
10	actually	actually	ADV	_	13 cow	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cow	det
12	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cow	compound
13	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flexing	obl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 door	case
15	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 door	amod
16	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cow	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 flexing	punct
18	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 flexing	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flex	past · progressive	He					hard property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	the buffalo	a farm cow		next door		actually property	tree rules

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