Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Mother Holle and The Frog Prince, par…

Did the King tell the princess to obey, like, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: King · What happens: tell, obey · To what, where: princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 123 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Mother Holle and The Frog Prince, part 26: the lazy girl gets pitch, and the frog claims his promise» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 obey	mark
8	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 princess	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	4 tell	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nah	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 nah	cc
13	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 tell	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the King		the princess				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient
2	obey	to-infinitive	the King not said here						vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he ordered her to let him in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ordered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ordered	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ordered	nsubj
4	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ordered	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 let	mark
7	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ordered	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	7 let	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	order	past	he		her = she				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	let in not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	him = he					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

Nah, he didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yeah, he asked her to open up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 open	mark
7	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	xcomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 open	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	he		her = she				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	open up not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nah, he told her to stay out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stay	mark
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 stay	compound:prt

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

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