Test 11 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Fish of the Fountain: a girl feeds…

so the moral is basically don't let your sisters snitch on your fish

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: moral · What happens: not be, snitch

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1312 «Violet Fairy Book, The Fish of the Fountain: a girl feeds a fish, he is eaten, and his bones grow into a magic tree» 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	so	so	ADV	_	11 snitch	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moral	det
3	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 snitch	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 let	cop
5	basically	basically	ADV	_	8 let	advmod
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 let	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 let	advmod
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 moral	acl:relcl
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sisters	nmod:poss
10	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 let	obj
11	snitch	snitch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 fish	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 fish	nmod:poss
14	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 snitch	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present · do-support	the moral not said here					basically, let property	tree rules
2	snitch speech: other	present	the moral					on your fish	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: 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

be kind, even to small creatures

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 kind	cop
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 creatures	punct
4	even	even	ADV	_	7 creatures	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 creatures	case
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 creatures	amod
7	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					to small creatures; kind property	tree rules

Option 2

be kind to fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 kind	cop
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 fish	case
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					to fish; kind property	tree rules

Option 3

don't trust your older sisters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 trust	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 trust	advmod
3	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sisters	nmod:poss
5	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 sisters	amod
6	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trust	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not trust	imperative · do-support	you not said here	your older sisters					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme

Option 4

be kind to your sisters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 kind	cop
2	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 sisters	case
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sisters	nmod:poss
5	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kind	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					to your sisters; kind property	tree rules

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