Test 4 · ★ · Contes des Fées, The Adventures of Covan the Brown-Haired,…

ok so what did the maiden actually say, fr

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: maiden · What happens: do, say · To what, where: maiden · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1183 «Contes des Fées, The Adventures of Covan the Brown-Haired, part 49: Ardan herds the old man's cows and is turned to stone» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 did	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maiden	det
6	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 say	advmod
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 maiden	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fr	punct
10	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 maiden	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the maiden and fr					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	the maiden and fr not said here					actually property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

ill will come of it if he listens to your offer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 come	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 come	aux
3	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 come	obl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 listens	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 listens	nsubj
8	listens	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 come	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 offer	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 offer	nmod:poss
11	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 listens	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come	future	ill	of it	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_Location
2	listen a condition, not said to happen	present	he	to your offer	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to offer=Theme
3	offer		your		nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she told him to stay home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stay	mark
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stay not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here					home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

she said nothing good would happen to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 happen	nsubj
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nothing	amod
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 happen	aux
6	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	would	nothing		him = he				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

she warned him not to go up the hill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 warned	nsubj
2	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 warned	obj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 go	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 warned	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 go	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hill	det
9	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	she		him = he				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not go up	to-infinitive		the hill					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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