Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth ste…

Did the youth think the ring was all hype at first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youth, ring · What happens: think, be · To what, where: hype · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1681 «Fairy Tales (pg640), The Magic Ring, part 5: the youth steals the ring and gets ready to fight the Dragon» 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 youth	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ring	det
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hype	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hype	cop
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 hype	det
9	hype	hype	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 think	ccomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 first	case
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 think	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	the youth						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the ring	all hype					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 believed every word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 believed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believed	nsubj
4	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 believed	obj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he didn't fully buy it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 buy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 buy	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 buy	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 buy	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 buy	advmod
6	fully	fully	ADV	_	7 buy	advmod
7	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not buy	past · do-support	he	it				fully property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he didn't fully buy it, mate, till he tried it himself

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 buy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 buy	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 buy	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 buy	advmod
6	fully	fully	ADV	_	7 buy	advmod
7	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 buy	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buy	vocative
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tried	punct
12	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 tried	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tried	nsubj
14	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 buy	parataxis
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tried	obj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 tried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not buy	past · do-support	he	it				mate vocative; fully property	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	try	past	he	mate					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer himself=Result

Option 4

Yeah, he thought it was rubbish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rubbish	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 rubbish	cop
7	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	rubbish					tree rules

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