Test 8 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel…

And the king just believed him, no questions?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: king · What happens: believe · To what, where: him

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1309 «Old Deccan Days, The Girl with One Hand, part 34: a cruel brother cuts off his sister's hand, and a prince finds her crying in a tree» 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 believed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 believed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 believed	advmod
5	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 believed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 questions	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 questions	det
9	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 believed	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 believed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	the king	him = he					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme question=Eventuality

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, he was a hothead, didn't think

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 hothead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hothead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hothead	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hothead	det
6	hothead	hothead	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 think	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hothead	punct
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 think	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 think	advmod
10	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a hothead					tree rules
2	not think speech: other	past · do-support	a hothead						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, he was a bit of a hothead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bit	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bit	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 hothead	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hothead	det
9	hothead	hothead	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a bit				of a hothead	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he just took his word for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 took	advmod
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 word	nmod:poss
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	his word				for word	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent word=Theme for it=Beneficiary
2	word		his = he						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Nah, he was careful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

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