Test 10 · ★ · Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, part 61: the dwarf's beard…

did the mom tell them to close the shutters, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mom · What happens: tell, close · To what, where: them, shutters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1474 «Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red, part 61: the dwarf's beard is caught in a split 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	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 mom	det
3	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 close	mark
7	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shutters	det
9	shutters	shutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 close	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nah	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 tell	discourse
13	?	?	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 mom		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	close not said to happen	to-infinitive	the mom not said here	the shutters					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shutter=Patient

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

nah, Snow-white opened them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 opened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 white	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Snow	punct
5	white	white	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 opened	nsubj
6	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 opened	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	Snow white	them = they					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, Snow-white closed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 closed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 closed	punct
3	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 closed	nsubj:pass
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Snow	punct
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 closed	amod
6	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 closed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	participle · passive		Snow					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, the mother told them to leave the shutters open so the bear could see inside

The tree, 16 words

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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 leave	mark
8	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shutters	det
10	shutters	shutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 open	nsubj
11	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 leave	ccomp
12	so	so	SCONJ	_	16 see	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bear	det
14	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 see	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 see	aux
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 leave	advcl
17	inside	inside	ADV	_	16 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the mother	them = they		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	leave not said to happen	to-infinitive	the mother not said here			tree rules
3	open	present	the shutters			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	could	the bear		inside property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

yeah, the mother told Snow-white to close the shutters before the bear came in the house

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mother	det
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	advcl
6	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 white	obl
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Snow	punct
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 told	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 close	mark
10	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 white	xcomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shutters	det
12	shutters	shutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 close	obj
13	before	before	ADP	_	15 bear	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bear	det
15	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 close	obl
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 house	det
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the mother				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	close	to-infinitive	the mother not said here	the shutters		before the bear	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shutter=Patient
3	come	past			the house		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

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