Test 8 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of a Very Bad Boy, part…

so the wolf wasn't totally dumb tho right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolf · What happens: not be, be

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1294 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of a Very Bad Boy, part 1: Toueno-Boueno catches a wolf by the tail and sells it as a ram, and the wolf ruins the brothers' sheep» 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	so	so	ADV	_	7 dumb	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dumb	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dumb	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 dumb	advmod
6	totally	totally	ADV	_	7 dumb	advmod
7	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	tho	tho	ADV	_	9 right	advmod
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dumb	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dumb	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the wolf					dumb, totally property	tree rules
2	be		the wolf not said here					tho 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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah he was dumb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah he knew what was going on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 knew	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 knew	nsubj
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 going	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 knew	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 going	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	he						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go on	past · progressive							vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah he tricked the farmers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 tricked	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tricked	nsubj
3	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 farmers	det
5	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tricked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	he	the farmers					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Patient

Option 4

Nah he didn't see the trap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 see	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trap	det
7	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past · do-support	he	the trap					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trap=Stimulus

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