Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 8…

Did the farmer really think the sack was a conjuror?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer, sack · What happens: do, think, be · To what, where: farmer, conjuror · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 869 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, Little Claus and Big Claus, part 80: Little Claus tricks the farmer and sells him the sexton in a chest» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 think	advmod
5	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 farmer	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sack	det
7	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 conjuror	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 conjuror	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 conjuror	det
10	conjuror	conjuror	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 think	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the farmer	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	infinitive	the farmer not said here		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the sack	a conjuror	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

No way, he knew it was fake but paid anyway for the show

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knew	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fake	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fake	cop
8	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 knew	ccomp
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 paid	cc
10	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knew	conj
11	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	10 paid	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 show	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 show	det
14	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	past	he	no way		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	way		fake property	tree rules
3	pay	past	he not said here		for the show; anyway property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for show=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he totally fell for it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fell	nsubj
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 fell	advmod
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	he					for it; totally property	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for it=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he totally fell for it and paid up without a word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fell	nsubj
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 fell	advmod
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fell	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 paid	cc
9	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fell	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 paid	compound:prt
11	without	without	ADP	_	13 word	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 word	det
13	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 paid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	he					for it; totally property	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for it=Theme
2	pay up	past	he not said here					without a word	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, he saw right through it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	4 saw	advmod
6	through	through	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	he			it		right property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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