Test 6 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, par…

Did the bear actually tell her off for anything?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: tell off · To what, where: her

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1418 «Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 5: the White Bear takes the youngest daughter home to her family, but she must keep a 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bear	det
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	iobj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 tell	compound:prt
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 anything	case
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 tell	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	past · do-support			her = she			for anything; actually property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

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

Yeah, don't talk to your mum on her own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 talk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 talk	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 talk	advmod
5	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 mum	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talk	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 own	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 own	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 talk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not talk	imperative · do-support	you not said here			her own		to your mum	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to mum=Co-Agent

Option 2

Yeah, don't go to the forest alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 forest	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	imperative · do-support	you not said here			the forest		alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he just told her to be good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 told	advmod
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 good	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 good	cop
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 told	xcomp

#	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.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					good property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, he shouted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 shouted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shouted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shouted	nsubj
4	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	he						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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