Test 8 · ★ · Norse Tales, The Old Man and the Trolls: three visits, thr…

test: did the wife believe him about the sacks?

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

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1638 «Norse Tales, The Old Man and the Trolls: three visits, three lost sacks, one lesson he never learns» 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	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 believe	obl:unmarked
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 test	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 believe	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wife	det
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 believe	nsubj
6	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 believe	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 sacks	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sacks	det
10	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 believe	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 believe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past · do-support	the wife	test				about the sacks	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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

she half believed him, somehow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 believed	nsubj
2	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	3 believed	advmod
3	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 believed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 somehow	punct
6	somehow	somehow	ADV	_	3 believed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	she	him = he				half, somehow property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

Option 2

not really, she thought he was lying but went along to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 thought	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	5 thought	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lying	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lying	aux
8	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 thought	ccomp
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thought	conj
11	along	along	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past	she		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	lie	past · progressive	he		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go along	past	she not said here	along property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	see	to-infinitive	she not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

not really, but she went out with him to look anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 look	mark
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 went	advcl
12	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	11 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go out	past	she					with him = he; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
2	look	to-infinitive	she not said here					anyway property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

not really, but she went anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	6 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	she					anyway property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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