Test 13 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow

so God knows Martha's telling the truth, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: God, Martha · What happens: know, tell · To what, where: Martha, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 845 «Andersen's Tales, The Glovemaker's Widow» 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 knows	advmod
2	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 knows	nsubj
3	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Martha	Martha	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 knows	obj
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Martha	case
6	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 Martha	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 truth	det
8	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 telling	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 knows	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 knows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	God	Martha					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer martha=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	Martha not said here	the truth					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, God in heaven knows it's the truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 God	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 God	punct
3	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 knows	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 heaven	case
5	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 God	nmod
6	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 truth	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 truth	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 truth	det
10	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	God in heaven						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	heaven	the truth					tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, God knows it's a lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 knows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 knows	nsubj
4	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	4 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	God						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	it	a lie					tree rules

Option 3

Nah, God knows it's a lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 knows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 knows	nsubj
4	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	4 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	God						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	it	a lie					tree rules

Option 4

Nah, God doesn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 does	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 does	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	present	God						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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