Test 7 · ★ · Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and…

did the Sun and Moon believe them right away?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sun · What happens: do, believe · To what, where: them

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1387 «Myths and Legends of China, The Empress Jokwa: the Sun and Moon come back to light» 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sun	det
3	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 believe	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Moon	cc
5	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Sun	conj
6	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	parataxis
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 believe	obj
8	right	right	ADV	_	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	6 believe	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	believe	present	the Sun and Moon	them = they				away property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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

Nah, they just laughed it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 laughed	advmod
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 laughed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh off	past	they	it					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Nah, they stalled and stayed super sus about the broken pillar of Heaven

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stalled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stalled	nsubj
4	stalled	stall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stayed	cc
6	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stalled	conj
7	super	super	ADV	_	8 sus	advmod
8	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stayed	xcomp
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 pillar	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pillar	det
11	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 pillar	amod
12	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sus	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Heaven	case
14	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 pillar	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stall	past	they		vn delay-53.3-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stay	past	they not said here	suspect property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	break	participle			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, they believed right away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 believed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 believed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believed	nsubj
4	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	4 believed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	they					away property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, they stalled, still sus about the pillar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stalled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stalled	nsubj
4	stalled	stall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sus	punct
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 sus	advmod
7	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stalled	ccomp
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 pillar	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pillar	det
10	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sus	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stall	past	they						vn delay-53.3-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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