Test 8 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prin…

Okay, so the father thought his son was in love, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: father, son · What happens: think, be · To what, where: love · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 690 «Violet Fairy Book, The Cat and the Rats (end) and The Prince Who Would Seek Immortality, part 1: a cat clears the rats from the palace, and a gloomy prince sets out to find a land where no one dies» 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	6 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 thought	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 father	det
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 love	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 love	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 love	case
11	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	11 love	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the father						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	father's son			love			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

Nah, he thought the boy was plotting to steal the throne

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plotting	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 plotting	aux
8	plotting	plot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 thought	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 steal	mark
10	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 plotting	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 throne	det
12	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	plot	past · progressive	the boy		tree rules
3	steal	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	the throne	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location throne=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, but he never told anyone what he guessed about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 told	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 told	advmod
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 told	iobj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 guessed	obj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 guessed	nsubj
10	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 anyone	acl:relcl
11	about	about	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 guessed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	past	he		anyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient
2	guess	past	he					about it	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he guessed that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 guessed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 guessed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 guessed	nsubj
4	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 guessed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guess	past	he	that					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme

Option 4

Nah, he hoped it wasn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 hoped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hoped	nsubj
4	hoped	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hoped	obj
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hoped	conj
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 was	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	past	he	it					tree rules
2	not be	past	he not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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