Test 4 · ★ · Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks th…

Was he proper sly when he pretended to be asleep, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 780 «Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks the witch, her maid and the lady, and turns the tables on them with salad» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pretended	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pretended	nsubj
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	7 pretended	advmod
4	sly	sly	ADV	_	3 proper	advmod
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 pretended	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pretended	nsubj
7	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	10 asleep	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 asleep	cop
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pretended	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pretended	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 pretended	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 pretended	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					pretend, properly property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	he not said here					asleep 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

no, he was awake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 awake	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 awake	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 awake	cop
5	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

yes, he lay still like a stone until the giants had gone away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lay	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	still	still	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 stone	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stone	det
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
9	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 gone	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 giants	det
11	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 gone	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	aux
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 lay	advcl
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 gone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	he				still	like a stone	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go away	past · perfect	the giants					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he faked it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 faked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 faked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 faked	nsubj
4	faked	fake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 faked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past	he	it					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

yeah, he faked it really well and the giants believed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 faked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 faked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 faked	nsubj
4	faked	fake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 faked	obj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 well	advmod
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 faked	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 believed	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giants	det
10	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 believed	nsubj
11	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 faked	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 believed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past	he	it				well property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	believe	past	the giants	him = he					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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