Test 9 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Goose-Girl, part 1: on the road t…

was Falada a talking horse or was that a fib?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Falada, fib

This is test 9 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Falada	cop
2	Falada	Falada	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horse	det
4	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horse	compound
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Falada	appos
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 fib	cc
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fib	cop
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 fib	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fib	det
10	fib	fib	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horse	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Falada	punct

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

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, he only neighed, no talking, sorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 neighed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 neighed	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 neighed	advmod
5	neighed	neigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 talking	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 talking	det
8	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 neighed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 neighed	punct
10	sorry	sorry	INTJ	_	5 neighed	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	neigh	past	he	no talking					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent talking=Theme

Option 2

yeah, it was a fib, he never said a word, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 fib	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fib	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fib	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fib	det
6	fib	fib	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fib	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 said	advmod
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 word	det
12	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 word	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, it's true, he could actually talk, sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 true	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 true	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 true	cop
5	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 talk	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 talk	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 talk	aux
9	actually	actually	ADV	_	10 talk	advmod
10	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 true	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sick	punct
12	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 true	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	it	true property	tree rules
2	talk	could	he	actually property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	be				tree rules

Option 4

yeah, it was a total fib, he could never talk, and the maid made it up, sick

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 fib	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fib	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fib	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fib	det
6	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fib	amod
7	fib	fib	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fib	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 talk	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 talk	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 talk	advmod
12	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fib	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 maid	det
16	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	nsubj
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fib	advcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	obj
19	up	up	ADP	_	17 made	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sick	punct
21	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fib	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a total fib	tree rules
2	not talk	could	he	a total fib not said here	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent fib=Patient
3	make up	past	the maid	fib	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Pivot
4	be				tree rules

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