Test 2 · ★ · Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wis…

Why is Suleiman «not proud», though he has a magic ring?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Suleiman · What happens: not be, have · To what, where: magic ring · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 96 «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 proud	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 proud	cop
3	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 proud	nsubj
4	«	«	PUNCT	_	6 proud	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 proud	advmod
6	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 proud	punct
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 has	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 has	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 has	nsubj
11	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 proud	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ring	det
13	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ring	amod
14	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 has	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 proud	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	Suleiman					proud property	tree rules
2	have	present	Suleiman	a magic ring					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient

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 is very old

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 old	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 old	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 old	advmod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					old property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He hardly ever shows off

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 shows	nsubj
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 shows	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 shows	advmod
4	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 shows	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show off	present	He				ever	hardly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He has no ring

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 ring	det
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	He	no ring					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient

Option 4

He is kind to all the animals

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 kind	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 kind	cop
3	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 animals	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 animals	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 animals	det
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					to all animals; kind property	tree rules

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