Test 1 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big…

yo, so the dad was like "I got four bears back in my day," no cap, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: dad

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1222 «Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big Brothers, part 2: the bear chief's servant lures the hunters into the mountain» 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 so	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dad	det
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 right	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 got	cop
7	like	like	SCONJ	_	10 got	mark
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dad	acl:relcl
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 bears	nummod
12	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 got	obj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 bears	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 day	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 day	nmod:poss
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 back	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cap	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 cap	punct
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 cap	det
20	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cap	punct
22	right	right	INTJ	_	3 so	discourse
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 so	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	I	the dad not said here				no cap obl; get 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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, total dad flex, and nobody believed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 flex	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flex	punct
3	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 flex	amod
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flex	compound
5	flex	flex	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 believed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 believed	cc
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 believed	nsubj
9	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 flex	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 believed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	nobody	him = he					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 2

Nah, the dad was actually telling the truth here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 telling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dad	det
4	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 telling	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 telling	cop
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	7 telling	advmod
7	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 truth	det
9	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 telling	obj
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 telling	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the dad			here		actually, tell property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, he was bragging a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 bragging	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bragging	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bragging	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bragging	aux
5	bragging	brag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lot	det
7	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bragging	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brag speech: other	past · progressive	he	a lot					vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, but the boys believed every word he said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 believed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 believed	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 believed	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boys	det
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 believed	nsubj
6	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 word	det
8	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 believed	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 word	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	the boys	every word					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	he	every word not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1222-pg3282-part23/t1/