Test 2 · ★ · Perrault, Sleeping Beauty, part 15: the Ogress Queen order…

Did the Prince tell his mum about the wedding, like?

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

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1428 «Perrault, Sleeping Beauty, part 15: the Ogress Queen orders a tub of serpents for the family» 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 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 wedding	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wedding	det
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	4 tell	obl
12	?	?	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 Prince		Prince's mum			about the wedding	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient about wedding=Topic

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

Nah, he never said a word, he was a proper quiet bloke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bloke	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 bloke	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 bloke	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bloke	det
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bloke	amod
13	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bloke	amod
14	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 word	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past	he	a word					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
2	is a	past	he	a proper quiet bloke					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he never said a word

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 word	det
7	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	past	he	a word					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic

Option 3

Nah, he kept it quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	obj
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	it				quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he told her all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 told	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	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 her	det

#	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

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