Test 6 · ★ · Ehstnische Marchen, The Finest Liar in the World, part 4:…

and then the boy goes to mills, bruh

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: go · To what, where: mills

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1753 «Ehstnische Marchen, The Finest Liar in the World, part 4: Elsa is shot down and wins a prince, then a boy's lying contest begins» 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 goes	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 goes	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goes	nsubj
5	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 mills	case
7	mills	mill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 goes	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 goes	punct
9	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	5 goes	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the boy			mills	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mill=Initial_Location

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

yeah, the beardless guy always gets there first, and then he tries to cheat the boy out of his corn

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 gets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guy	det
4	beardless	beardless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 guy	amod
5	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gets	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 gets	advmod
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 gets	advmod
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 gets	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tries	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tries	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 tries	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tries	nsubj
14	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gets	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 cheat	mark
16	cheat	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tries	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cheat	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 corn	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 corn	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 corn	nmod:poss
22	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cheat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the beardless guy		there		always, first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	try	present	guy			then		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cheat not said to happen	to-infinitive	guy not said here	the boy	guy's corn			vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the beardless guy always gets there first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 gets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guy	det
4	beardless	beardless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 guy	amod
5	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gets	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 gets	advmod
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 gets	advmod
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 gets	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the beardless guy			there		always, first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

yeah, the beardless guy always gets there first and the boy is stuck grinding at the fourth mill

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 gets	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 guy	det
4	beardless	beardless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 guy	amod
5	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gets	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 gets	advmod
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 gets	advmod
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 gets	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stuck	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 boy	det
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stuck	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 stuck	cop
14	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gets	conj
15	grinding	grind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 stuck	advcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	19 mill	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mill	det
18	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 mill	amod
19	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grinding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	get	present	the beardless guy	there	always, first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	the boy		stuck property	tree rules
3	grind	gerund	the boy not said here	the fourth mill		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, the beardless one is always late to town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 late	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	beardless	beardless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 late	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 late	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 late	advmod
8	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 town	case
10	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 late	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the beardless one					to town; always, late property	tree rules

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