Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 1: on the road t…

did the princess tell her mum what the maid did?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess, maid · What happens: tell, do · To what, where: mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1475 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 1: on the road to the wedding, the maid takes the princess's place» 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 princess	det
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 did	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 maid	det
9	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 did	nsubj
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
11	?	?	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 princess		princess's mum				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient clause=Topic
2	do	past	the maid						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

yeah, she told her mum and got the maid sacked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	iobj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 got	cc
8	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 maid	det
10	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obj
11	sacked	sack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she		her mum	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mum=Recipient
2	get	past	she not said here	the maid		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maid=Stimulus
3	sack	past	she not said here			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yeah, she told her mother everything straight away, but her mum just laughed at her

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 everything	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 everything	compound
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 told	obj
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	4 told	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 laughed	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 laughed	cc
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mum	nmod:poss
13	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 laughed	nsubj
14	just	just	ADV	_	15 laughed	advmod
15	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 laughed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	she	everything				away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient
2	laugh	past	her mum					at her = she	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, she was too meek and just went along with it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 meek	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 meek	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 meek	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 meek	advmod
6	meek	meek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 meek	conj
10	along	along	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					meek property	tree rules
2	go along	past	she not said here					with it; along property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary

Option 4

nah, she was too meek and just went along with it, letting the maid boss her about

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 meek	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 meek	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 meek	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 meek	advmod
6	meek	meek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 meek	conj
10	along	along	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 letting	punct
14	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 meek	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 boss	det
16	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 boss	compound
17	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 letting	obj
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 boss	nmod
19	about	about	ADV	_	14 letting	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	she		meek property	tree rules
2	go along	past	she not said here		with it; along property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary
3	let	gerund	she not said here	the maid boss her	about property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boss=Theme

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