Test 2 · ★ · Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take…

bruh, why did the tyrant think Pythias was lying?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tyrant, Pythias · What happens: think, lie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 353 «Tales of Honor, Damon and Pythias: a friend offers to take his friend's place in prison» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	7 think	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 think	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 think	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 think	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tyrant	det
6	tyrant	tyrant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 think	nsubj
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	Pythias	Pythias	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 lying	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lying	aux
10	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 think	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 think	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · do-support	the tyrant						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	lie	past · progressive	Pythias						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Because he thought Pythias was a thief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 thought	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Pythias	Pythias	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thief	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thief	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thief	det
7	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 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	Pythias	a thief					tree rules

Option 2

He figured Pythias was a total fraud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 figured	nsubj
2	figured	figure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Pythias	Pythias	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fraud	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fraud	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fraud	det
6	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fraud	amod
7	fraud	fraud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 figured	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	figure	past	He						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	Pythias	a total fraud					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cause he figured he just wanted to cheat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 figured	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 figured	nsubj
3	figured	figure	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	6 wanted	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 wanted	advmod
6	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 figured	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cheat	mark
8	cheat	cheat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	figure	past	Cause	tree rules
2	want	past	Cause	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	cheat not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cause not said here	vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He thought he was lying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lying	aux
5	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						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

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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