Test 7 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Lazy Youth and the King's Herdsman, part 4…

bro does the herdsman buy the sheep story at the end

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: herdsman · What happens: buy · To what, where: sheep story, end

This is test 7 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buy	vocative
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 buy	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 herdsman	det
4	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buy	nsubj
5	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 story	compound
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buy	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buy	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	present · do-support	the herdsman	the sheep story			at the end	bro vocative	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent story=Theme at end=Asset

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

nah, he knows it's a lie, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 lie	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lie	nsubj
4	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lie	cop
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lie	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lie	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lie	det
8	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cap	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 cap	det
11	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lie	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a lie and no cap					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he believes every word, the boy is honest and sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 believes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 believes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believes	nsubj
4	believes	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 honest	advcl
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 word	det
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 believes	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 honest	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 honest	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 honest	cop
11	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sad	cc
13	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 honest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	believe	present	he	every word		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	is	present	the boy		honest property	tree rules
3	be		the boy not said here			tree rules

Option 3

nah, he laughs at it, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 laughs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughs	nsubj
4	laughs	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laughs	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cap	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 cap	det
9	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	he	no cap		it			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, he buys it, totally real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 buys	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 buys	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
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 real	punct
7	totally	totally	ADV	_	8 real	advmod
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 buys	obl

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

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