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title: is the kid like a genius or just a dumb kid — Folk Tales, The Lazy Youth and the Kin… · tree and pragmatics
description: is the kid like a genius or just a dumb kid Test 8 · ★ of lesson 703 «Folk Tales, The Lazy Youth and the King's Herdsman, part 43: the youth hides the pigs and sheep and tricks the herdsman» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of 
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# Test 8 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Lazy Youth and the King's Herdsman, part 4…

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is the kid like a genius or just a dumb kid

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** kid

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 703 «Folk Tales, The Lazy Youth and the King's Herdsman, part 43: the youth hides the pigs and sheep and tricks the herdsman» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/703-pg2435-part43/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:703-pg2435-part43:t8:1
# text = is the kid like a genius or just a dumb kid
1	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the kid or a dumb kid |  |  |  | like a genius | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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just dumb

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:703-pg2435-part43:t8:o1:1
# text = just dumb
1	just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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lowkey both

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:703-pg2435-part43:t8:o2:1
# text = lowkey both
1	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	det	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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lowkey both, kinda sus honestly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:703-pg2435-part43:t8:o3:1
# text = lowkey both, kinda sus honestly
1	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sus	sus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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just a genius, kinda cool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:703-pg2435-part43:t8:o4:1
# text = just a genius, kinda cool
1	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	genius	genius	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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