Test 5 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plouhinec, part 1: a beg…

Were Marzinne and Rozennik minted, or just think they are?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Marzinne · What happens: be, think · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1316 «Lang's Fairy Books, The Stones of Plouhinec, part 1: a beggar comes to the Christmas supper» 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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 minted	cop
2	Marzinne	Marzinne	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 minted	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Rozennik	cc
4	Rozennik	Rozennik	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Marzinne	conj
5	minted	mint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 think	punct
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 think	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 think	advmod
9	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 minted	ccomp
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 are	nsubj
11	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 think	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 minted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Marzinne and Rozennik	mint property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	infinitive	Marzinne and Rozennik not said here		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	be	present	Marzinne		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

They are both rich but pretend to be poor for fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rich	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rich	cop
3	both	both	ADV	_	4 rich	advmod
4	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 pretend	cc
6	pretend	pretend	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rich	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 poor	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 poor	cop
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rich	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 fun	case
11	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 poor	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	They	both, rich property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here		tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	They not said here	for fun; poor property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They just think they are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 think	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 think	advmod
3	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 are	nsubj
5	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	They						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	does	present	they						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, they're both skint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 skint	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 skint	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 skint	cop
5	both	both	ADV	_	6 skint	advmod
6	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	they					both, skint property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, they really are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 are	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 are	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 are	advmod
5	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	they						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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