Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg3282), The Prince and the Crocodile: the he…

Mate, the bear was dumb to believe him, wasn't he?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bear · What happens: be, believe, not be · To what, where: him, he

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1242 «Fairy Tales (pg3282), The Prince and the Crocodile: the herb saves the prince from the crocodile» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 he	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dumb	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bear	det
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dumb	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dumb	cop
6	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mate	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 believe	mark
8	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 dumb	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 believe	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 he	cop
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 he	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 he	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bear		dumb property	tree rules
2	believe	to-infinitive	the bear not said here	him = he		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	not is a	past		he		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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he was too trusting of foxes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 trusting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 trusting	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 trusting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trusting	aux
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 trusting	advmod
6	trusting	trust	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 foxes	case
8	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 trusting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	past · progressive	he					of foxes	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was hungry and not in a good mood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 hungry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hungry	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hungry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hungry	cop
5	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mood	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 mood	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 mood	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mood	det
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mood	amod
11	mood	mood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hungry	conj

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

Option 3

Nah, he was just very polite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 polite	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 polite	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 polite	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 polite	advmod
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 polite	advmod
7	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Nah, he was clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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