Test 4 · ★ · Red Fairy Book, The Star Gazer

did the youngest princess grass on the sisters?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: youngest princess grass

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1506 «Red Fairy Book, The Star Gazer» 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grass	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 grass	amod
4	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grass	compound
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 sisters	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sisters	det
8	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 did	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the youngest princess grass				on the sisters	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=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 · ✓ the right answer

nah, she just said she'd tell dad about the shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 shoes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shoes	det
12	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	would	she		dad			about the shoes	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient about shoe=Topic

Option 2

nah, she just said she'd tell dad about the shoes and the holes in them

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 shoes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shoes	det
12	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tell	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 holes	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 holes	det
15	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 shoes	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	would	she		dad			about the shoes and the holes; in holes = hole	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient about shoe=Topic

Option 3

nah, she just said she'd tell dad about the shoes and the sisters' secret plan

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
7	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
9	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	obj
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 shoes	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shoes	det
12	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tell	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 plan	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sisters	det
15	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 plan	nmod:poss
16	'	's	PART	_	15 sisters	case
17	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 plan	amod
18	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	would	she	dad	about the shoes	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient about shoe=Topic
3	plan		the sisters			nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, she threatened to tell the king about the cup

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 threatened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 threatened	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 threatened	nsubj
4	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 threatened	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 cup	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cup	det
11	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	threaten	past	she						tree rules
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here		the king			about the cup	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent king=Recipient about cup=Topic

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