Test 6 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Lazy Youth and the King's Herdsman, part 4…

wait so the bells ring cause of a breeze, not the sheep?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bells · What happens: wait, ring, cause · To what, where: cause, breeze

This is test 6 · ★ 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 ring	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bells	det
4	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ring	nsubj
5	ring	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
6	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ring	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 breeze	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 breeze	det
9	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cause	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sheep	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 sheep	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sheep	det
13	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 breeze	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ring	present	the bells	cause of a breeze and the sheep	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cause=Theme
3	cause			a breeze and the sheep	nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient

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

yep, the wind does it, that's the trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 does	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	nsubj
5	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 does	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 trick	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 trick	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 trick	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trick	det
11	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 does	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the wind	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	is a	present	that	the trick					tree rules

Option 2

yep, the wind, that's it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 wind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wind	det
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wind	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 it	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 it	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wind	appos

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, the sheep ring them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ring	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sheep	det
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ring	nsubj
5	ring	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	present	the sheep	them = they					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

Option 4

yep, the sheep do it, that's the trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sheep	det
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 trick	punct
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 trick	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 trick	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trick	det
11	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the sheep	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	is a	present	that	the trick					tree rules

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