Test 3 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Charmed Ring, part 17: Harisarman…

test: so wait, why was the dude sad at the start?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: test, dude · What happens: wait, be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	4 wait	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 wait	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 wait	advmod
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 why	punct
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 wait	parataxis
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 why	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dude	det
9	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 why	nsubj
10	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dude	amod
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 start	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 start	det
13	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sad	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	infinitive	test						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the dude					why property	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

cuz he faked being smart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 faked	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 faked	nsubj
3	faked	fake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 smart	cop
5	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 faked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past	cuz						vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	gerund	cuz not said here					smart property	tree rules

Option 2

cuz he pretended he knew everything about frogs and gold and snakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pretended	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pretended	nsubj
3	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pretended	ccomp
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 knew	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 frogs	case
8	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 everything	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gold	cc
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frogs	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 snakes	cc
12	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 frogs	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	cuz						tree rules
2	know	past	cuz	everything				about frogs and gold and snakes	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus

Option 3

cuz he faked knowing stuff and got caught by the king's men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 faked	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 faked	nsubj
3	faked	fake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 faked	xcomp
5	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knowing	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 caught	cc
7	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 caught	aux:pass
8	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 faked	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	13 men	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 men	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 king	case
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	fake	past	cuz		tree rules
2	know	gerund	cuz not said here	stuff	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer stuff=Stimulus
3	catch	past · passive	the king's men		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cuz he faked knowing stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 faked	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 faked	nsubj
3	faked	fake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	knowing	know	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stuff	amod
5	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 faked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past	cuz	knowing stuff					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient
2	know	gerund							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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