Test 6 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Star Gazer, part 2: Michael hides und…

did Michael take the purse of gold, like, for real?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Michael · What happens: take · To what, where: purse

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1505 «Blue Fairy Book, The Star Gazer, part 2: Michael hides under a bed, follows the princesses to a magic ball, and Lina catches on» 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	3 take	aux
2	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 take	nsubj
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 purse	det
5	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 gold	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 purse	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	3 take	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 real	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 real	case
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 take	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · do-support	Michael	the purse of gold					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he said he doesn't sell his silence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sell	nsubj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sell	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 sell	advmod
8	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 silence	nmod:poss
10	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not sell	present · do-support	he	his silence	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme
3	silence		his = he		nom silence «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

yeah, he took the gold and ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gold	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ran	cc
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	he	the gold					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
2	run	past	he not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

nah, he just kept it quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 kept	advmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	obj
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	it				quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

nah, he said he doesn't sell his silence to anyone at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sell	nsubj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sell	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 sell	advmod
8	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 silence	nmod:poss
10	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sell	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 anyone	case
12	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 sell	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not sell	present · do-support	he	his silence	anyone	all	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent silence=Theme to anyone=Recipient at all=Asset
3	silence		his = he				nom silence «state transitive»: poss=agent

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