Test 11 · ★ · Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: thieves flee fro…

long story, who said "hangman's name," Fred or Cath?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: long story, hangman · What happens: say, name · To what, where: name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 108 «Household Tales, Frederick and Catherine: thieves flee from what they think is the Evil One» 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	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 story	amod
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 story	parataxis
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 name	punct
7	hangman	hangman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 name	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 hangman	case
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 name	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Fred	punct
12	Fred	Fred	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 Cath	cc
14	Cath	Cath	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Fred	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 story	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	long story	hangman's name					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic
2	name in a quote		hangman						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

Fred and Cath both said it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fred	Fred	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Cath	cc
3	Cath	Cath	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Fred	conj
4	both	both	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Fred and Cath	it				both property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

The thieves said it, not Fred or Cath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thieves	det
2	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Fred	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 Fred	advmod
7	Fred	Fred	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 Cath	cc
9	Cath	Cath	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Fred	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the thieves	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

Ted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ted	Ted	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Fred

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fred	Fred	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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