Test 5 · ★ · Indian Tales, The Younger Son of the Jackal, part 31: the…

that jackal really thought he was the smartest, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jackal · What happens: think, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1165 «Indian Tales, The Younger Son of the Jackal, part 31: the jackal cheats the sheep over the grain, and the greyhound is called in» 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	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 jackal	det
2	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 thought	advmod
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	8 smartest	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 smartest	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 smartest	det
8	smartest	smart	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 thought	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cap	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 cap	det
11	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smartest	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	that jackal						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	jackal					no cap obl; smart property	tree rules

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, he was quite foolish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 foolish	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 foolish	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 foolish	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 foolish	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 foolish	advmod
6	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					foolish property	tree rules

Option 2

nah, he was actually humble, but he was really clever at heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 humble	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 humble	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 humble	cop
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 humble	advmod
6	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 clever	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 clever	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 clever	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 clever	cop
11	really	really	ADV	_	12 clever	advmod
12	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 humble	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 heart	case
14	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 clever	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					actually, humble property	tree rules
2	is	past	he			heart		clever property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he was super cocky and bragged about his cleverness all day long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 cocky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cocky	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cocky	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cocky	cop
5	super	super	ADV	_	6 cocky	advmod
6	cocky	cocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bragged	cc
8	bragged	brag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cocky	conj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 cleverness	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cleverness	nmod:poss
11	cleverness	cleverness	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bragged	obl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 day	det
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bragged	obl:unmarked
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 bragged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					cocky, super property	tree rules
2	brag speech: other	past	he not said here				day	about his cleverness; long property	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about cleverness=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he was super cocky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 cocky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cocky	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cocky	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cocky	cop
5	super	super	ADV	_	6 cocky	advmod
6	cocky	cocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					cocky, super property	tree rules

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