Test 10 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's s…

Was the young man's fake claim about being a doctor sus?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: fake claim

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1414 «Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, part 1: the gardener's son cures the old King and asks for a ring» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 claim	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 claim	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 man	case
6	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 claim	amod
7	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	12 sus	case
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sus	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 sus	det
11	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sus	compound
12	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 claim	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 claim	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the young man's fake claim					tree rules
2	is	gerund						about a doctor sus	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

Nah, he said he was from Athens, which was legit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Athens	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Athens	cop
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Athens	case
8	Athens	Athens	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 legit	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 legit	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 legit	cop
12	legit	legit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Athens	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he	Athens		tree rules
3	is	past	Athens		legit property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he said he was from Janina, which was dodgy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 Janina	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Janina	cop
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 Janina	case
8	Janina	Janina	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dodgy	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 dodgy	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dodgy	cop
12	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Janina	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he	Janina		tree rules
3	is	past	Janina		dodgy property	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, it was legit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Nah, he wasn't a doctor at all, he just said he was from Janina to get a cheap room

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 doctor	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 doctor	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doctor	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 doctor	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 doctor	det
7	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 doctor	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 doctor	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 said	advmod
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 Janina	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Janina	cop
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 Janina	case
17	Janina	Janina	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 get	mark
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 room	det
21	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 room	amod
22	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not is a	past	he	a doctor	all	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a doctor			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past	doctor		Janina	tree rules
4	get	to-infinitive		a cheap room		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer room=Stimulus

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