Test 2 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, part 1: Mic…

wait why did everyone at the farm laugh at him tho?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, everyone · What happens: wait, laugh · To what, where: tho

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1504 «Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, part 1: Michael the Star Gazer finds two magic laurels» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 laugh	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 laugh	aux
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 laugh	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 farm	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farm	det
7	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 everyone	nmod
8	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 laugh	obl
11	tho	tho	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 laugh	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	laugh	past · do-support	everyone	tho				at him = he	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 reckoned he was just a daydreaming lad lol

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	2 reckoned	nsubj
2	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lad	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	8 lad	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lad	det
7	daydreaming	daydreaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lad	compound
8	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckoned	obj
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	8 lad	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	they						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	he	a daydreaming lad					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cause they thought his dreams were total nonsense

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	cop
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dreams	nmod:poss
5	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 nonsense	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 nonsense	cop
7	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nonsense	amod
8	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	_	3 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be speech: other	present	they		think property	tree rules
2	is a	past	his dreams	total nonsense		tree rules
3	dream		his = he			nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

cause they all thought he was a fool who believed his dreams were actually messages from the saints above

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	obl:unmarked
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 they	det
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fool	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fool	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fool	det
8	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 believed	nsubj
10	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fool	acl:relcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 dreams	nmod:poss
12	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 messages	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 messages	cop
14	actually	actually	ADV	_	15 messages	advmod
15	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 believed	ccomp
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 saints	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 saints	det
18	saints	saint	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 believed	obl
19	above	above	ADV	_	8 fool	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	they	cause			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	he	a fool		above property	tree rules
3	believe	past	a fool		the saints		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	his dreams	messages		actually property	tree rules
5	dream		his = he				nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

cause they thought his dreams were total nonsense and that a farm boy could never marry royalty anyway

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thought	cop
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 dreams	nmod:poss
5	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 nonsense	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 nonsense	cop
7	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nonsense	amod
8	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	_	3 thought	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 marry	cc
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 marry	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 boy	det
12	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 boy	compound
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 marry	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 marry	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 marry	advmod
16	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 nonsense	conj
17	royalty	royalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 marry	obj
18	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	16 marry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be speech: other	present	they		think property	tree rules
2	is a	past	his dreams	total nonsense		tree rules
3	not marry	could	a farm boy	royalty	anyway property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent royalty=Patient
4	dream		his = he			nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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