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

how's the herdsman supposed to believe that's real

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: herdsman, that · What happens: be, suppose, believe · To what, where: herdsman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 how	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 herdsman	det
4	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 how	nsubj
5	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 herdsman	acl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 believe	mark
7	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 supposed	xcomp
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 real	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 real	cop
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 believe	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the herdsman		how property	tree rules
2	suppose	participle		the herdsman not said here		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	believe	to-infinitive				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	that		real 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 · ← Mova's choice

he can't, it's kinda sus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sus	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 he	conj
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 ca	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 he	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sus	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sus	cop
7	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	8 sus	advmod
8	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

he won't, it's cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wo	nsubj
2	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 wo	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 cap	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cap	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cap	cop
7	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wo	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	cap					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he can't, it's totally cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 he	conj
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 ca	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cap	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cap	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cap	cop
7	totally	totally	ADV	_	8 cap	advmod
8	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 he	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	cap				totally property	tree rules

Option 4

he can, it's real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 can	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 can	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 real	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 real	cop
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 can	acl:relcl

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

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