Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro, par…

Wait, the king thought the Count was richer than him?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, king, Count · What happens: wait, think, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 701 «Fairy Book, How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro, part 1: the fox sells pears and coats to the king for a lazy boy» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thought	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thought	nsubj
5	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Count	det
7	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 richer	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 richer	cop
9	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 thought	ccomp
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 richer	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	think speech: other	past	the king		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the Count	than king; rich 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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the fox said so, sus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sus	punct
8	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the fox	sus					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Nah, the fox lied, sus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 lied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lied	nsubj
5	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sus	punct
7	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the fox	sus					vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sus=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, the king was richer, sus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 richer	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 richer	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 richer	cop
6	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sus	punct
8	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 richer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king					sus obl; rich property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, the fox said so, and the king believed every word, sus

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 believed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 believed	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 believed	nsubj
11	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 word	det
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 believed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sus	punct
15	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 word	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the fox						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	believe	past	the king	every word					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus

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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