Test 10 · ★ · Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn Wha…

real talk, what did the carrier tell him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: real talk · What happens: tell · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1435 «Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, part 22: he keeps watch in the haunted castle, fights the animals, and survives the runaway bed» 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	8 tell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 carrier	det
7	carrier	carrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	real talk		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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 · ← Mova's choice

Nonsense, you must stay here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stay	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nonsense	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 stay	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stay	aux
5	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	must	you			here		Nonsense vocative	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Stop being silly, follow me

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 silly	cop
3	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stop	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 follow	punct
5	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 follow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is	gerund	you not said here		silly property	tree rules
3	follow	infinitive	you not said here	me		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

Option 3

Come with me

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 me	case
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here					with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Stuff and nonsense, come with me

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 nonsense	cc
3	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stuff	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	infinitive	Stuff and nonsense					with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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