Test 12 · ★ · Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part 33: an old jug makes…

did the agricultural editor believe Uncle Remus about the jug?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: agricultural editor · What happens: believe · To what, where: Uncle Remus

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 597 «Uncle Remus, That Deceitful Jug, part 33: an old jug makes the newspaper men tease Uncle Remus» 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 believe	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 editor	det
3	agricultural	agricultural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 editor	amod
4	editor	editor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 believe	nsubj
5	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Remus	compound
7	Remus	Remus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 believe	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 jug	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 jug	det
10	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 believe	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 believe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past · do-support	the agricultural editor	Uncle Remus				about the jug	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer remus=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he said the jug was full

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jug	det
6	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 full	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 full	cop
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the jug					full property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he laughed at the jug fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughed	nsubj
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 jug	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jug	det
7	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughed	obl
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 laughed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	he			the jug		fast property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he said we've seen jugs before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 seen	nsubj
6	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 seen	aux
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
8	jugs	jug	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seen	obj
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 seen	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see before	present · perfect	we	jugs					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jug=Stimulus

Option 4

Nah, he didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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