Test 12 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Lazy Youth and the King's Herdsman, part 4…

can the herdsman tell the kid is fibbing

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: herdsman, kid · What happens: tell, fib · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 703 «Folk Tales, The Lazy Youth and the King's Herdsman, part 43: the youth hides the pigs and sheep and tricks the herdsman» 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	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 herdsman	det
3	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kid	det
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fibbing	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fibbing	aux
8	fibbing	fib	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 tell	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	the herdsman						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fib	present · progressive	the kid						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

nah, he buys every word, fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 buys	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 buys	nsubj
4	buys	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buys	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fr	punct
8	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 word	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	present	he	every word and fr					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah he's not buying it at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 buying	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 buying	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 buying	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 buying	advmod
5	buying	buy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 buying	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 buying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not buy	present · progressive	he	it		all			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at all=Asset

Option 3

nah, he buys it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 buys	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 buys	nsubj
4	buys	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 buys	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	present	he	it					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

yeah, he's fooled by it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fooled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fooled	nsubj:pass
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fooled	aux
5	fooled	fool	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fooled	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	present · passive		he				by it	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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