Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What F…

Real talk, what did pops say he could not tell anyone?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pops, he · What happens: say, not tell · To what, where: Real talk, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1434 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, part 21: the youth warms seven dead men and hangs them back up» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
6	pops	pop	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	acl:relcl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tell	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 tell	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 tell	advmod
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 tell	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	pops	Real talk					tree rules
2	not tell speech: assert	could	he		anyone				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=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

Who his father was and where he came from

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 where	nsubj
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 where	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 where	cop
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 where	cc
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 where	acl:relcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	8 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						where property	tree rules
2	come	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Where he came from

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	3 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	he						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The name of the family's secret ghost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 name	det
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 ghost	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 family	det
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ghost	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 family	case
7	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ghost	amod
8	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 name	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name			the family's secret ghost					nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient
2	ghost		the family						nom ghost «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Who his father was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Who	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Who	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	his father						tree rules

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