Test 11 · ★ · Grimm, Thumbling, part 21: a tiny boy is sold, escapes, an…

What did the thieves say to shush him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: thieves · What happens: do, say, shush · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 118 «Grimm, Thumbling, part 21: a tiny boy is sold, escapes, and offers to help thieves rob a pastor» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thieves	det
4	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
6	to	to	PART	_	7 shush	mark
7	shush	shush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 say	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shush	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the thieves		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	shush	to-infinitive		him = he	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=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 · ← Mova's choice

Speak softly and carefully, because if you wake anyone up in this house we are all in trouble

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	softly	softly	ADV	_	1 Speak	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 carefully	cc
4	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	2 softly	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wake	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 wake	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 wake	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 wake	nsubj
9	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Speak	advcl
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 wake	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 wake	compound:prt
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wake	obl
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 trouble	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 trouble	cop
17	all	all	ADV	_	19 trouble	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 trouble	case
19	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 house	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here			softly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wake up	present	you	anyone	this house		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient
3	is	present	we	this house not said here	trouble	all property	tree rules

Option 2

Keep it down, folks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keep	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 Keep	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 folks	punct
5	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep down	imperative	you not said here	it				folks obl	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Stop yelling right now and go back to bed before the pastor hears you and calls the guards

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	yelling	yell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Stop	xcomp
3	right	right	ADV	_	4 now	advmod
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 yelling	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 go	cc
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 bed	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 hears	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pastor	det
12	pastor	pastor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hears	nsubj
13	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	advcl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 hears	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 calls	cc
16	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hears	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 guards	det
18	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 calls	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	yell speech: express	gerund	you not said here		now		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go back	infinitive	you not said here			to bed result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result
4	hear	present	the pastor	you			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
5	call	present	the pastor not said here	the guards			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Speak softly, don't wake anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speak	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	softly	softly	ADV	_	1 Speak	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wake	punct
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 wake	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 wake	advmod
6	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Speak	conj
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 wake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here					softly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not wake	infinitive · do-support	you not said here	anyone					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent anyone=Patient

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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