Test 13 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 17: Harisarman…

test: did the king believe the frog thing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: test, king · What happens: do, believe · To what, where: frog thing

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1833 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 17: Harisarman fools the king with a lucky guess, and a kind young man buys a dog, a cat and a snake» 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	3 did	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	1 test	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 believe	nsubj
6	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thing	compound
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 believe	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	test						tree rules
2	believe	present	the king	the frog thing					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=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

yeah, he thought it was real divination and gave Harisarman lots of gifts

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	8 divination	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 divination	cop
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 divination	amod
8	divination	divination	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
11	Harisarman	Harisarman	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 lots	compound
12	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 gave	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 gifts	case
14	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lots	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	it	real divination	tree rules
3	give	past	he not said here	Harisarman lots of gifts	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Theme

Option 2

nah, he thought it was a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	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	8 joke	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 joke	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 joke	det
8	joke	joke	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	a joke					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he thought it was divination

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 divination	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 divination	cop
7	divination	divination	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	divination					tree rules

Option 4

yeah, he thought it was magic

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 magic	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 magic	cop
7	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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	past	it					magic property	tree rules

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