Test 2 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Lazy Youth and the King's Herdsman, part 4…

wait so the herdsman gives him like two hundred pigs??

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, herdsman · What happens: wait, give · To what, where: him

This is test 2 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	5 gives	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 herdsman	det
4	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	nsubj
5	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gives	iobj
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 pigs	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hundred	compound
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 pigs	nummod
10	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gives	obl
11	??	??	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	present	the herdsman		him = he			like hundred pigs	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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

fr, a hundred, that's wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wild	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hundred	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hundred	det
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 fr	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 wild	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wild	cop
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	fr					wild property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, the herdsman gives him fifty pigs and a dog to watch them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 gives	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 herdsman	det
4	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	nsubj
5	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gives	iobj
7	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 pigs	nummod
8	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gives	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dog	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dog	det
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pigs	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 watch	mark
13	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gives	advcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 watch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	the herdsman	fifty pigs and a dog	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pig=Theme
2	watch	to-infinitive	the herdsman not said here	pigs = pig					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

fr, two hundred pigs, that's wild, nobody gives that much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wild	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 pigs	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 pigs	nummod
5	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 fr	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 wild	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wild	cop
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gives	punct
11	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 gives	nsubj
12	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wild	parataxis
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 gives	obj
14	much	much	ADV	_	12 gives	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	fr and hundred pigs					wild property	tree rules
2	give	present	nobody	that					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

fr, two hundred, that's wild

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wild	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hundred	punct
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 fr	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 wild	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wild	cop
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	fr					wild property	tree rules

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