Test 10 · ★ · Lang Fairy Book, The Clever Cat, part 22: a weaver's clums…

Did his mum believe him when he asked her to tell the king?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum, he · What happens: believe, ask, tell · To what, where: him, mum, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1156 «Lang Fairy Book, The Clever Cat, part 22: a weaver's clumsy mistake, a lost-seeming weaver, and a son who gets rich with a magic stone» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mum	aux
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mum	nmod:poss
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 believe	nsubj
4	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believe	obj
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 asked	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 believe	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 tell	mark
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tell	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 believe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	believe	present	his mum	him = he		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	ask speech: ask	past	he		mum	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here		the king	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient

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

Yeah, but only after the stone, proper sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 stone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stone	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 stone	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 stone	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 stone	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sick	punct
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sick	amod
10	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stone	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Nah, she reckoned he was daft, well confused

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	nsubj
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 daft	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 daft	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 daft	cop
7	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 confused	punct
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 confused	advmod
10	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 daft	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	she		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he	daft property	tree rules
3	be		he not said here	well property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she thought he'd lost his mind, proper confused, and wouldn't go near the king at all

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lost	nsubj
6	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lost	aux
7	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 thought	ccomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mind	nmod:poss
9	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lost	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 confused	punct
11	proper	properly	ADV	_	12 confused	advmod
12	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lost	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 go	cc
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
16	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 go	advmod
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	ccomp
18	near	near	ADP	_	20 king	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	lose	past · perfect	he	his mind			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Eventuality
3	not go	would			all	near the king	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near king=Location
4	mind		his = he				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she thought he'd gone mental, proper confused

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 'd	nsubj
6	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	ccomp
7	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 'd	xcomp
8	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 proper	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mental	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 confused	amod
11	confused	confused	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gone	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	she						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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