Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsm…

Bruh, why did the herdsman yell "Scoundrel, you lie!"?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: do, lie · To what, where: herdsman yell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 704 «Fairy Tales of Many Lands, The Clever Youth and the Herdsman: he loses the king's golden ox, dodges the scythes, and wins a bride» 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 yell	det
6	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 yell	compound
7	yell	yell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 Scoundrel	punct
9	Scoundrel	Scoundrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 yell	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lie	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 lie	nsubj
12	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 lie	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 lie	punct
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the herdsman yell					tree rules
2	lie in a quote	present	you						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

he thought the youth had stolen the oxen

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stolen	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stolen	aux
6	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thought	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oxen	det
8	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stolen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	steal	past · perfect · passive		the youth					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary ox=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he did not believe the story

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	4 believe	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 believe	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 believe	advmod
4	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 story	det
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 believe	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not believe	past · do-support	he	the story					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he thought the youth was lying

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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 youth	det
4	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lying	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lying	aux
6	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	lie	past · progressive	the youth						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he was angry

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	3 angry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 angry	cop
3	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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